Author: Michael Steinman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438421109
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Heroic man and "the lies of history," the myths that surrounded them, were vital to the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. This study examines the four Anglo-Irish historical figures who dominated his life and art: Oscar Wilde, Charles Stewart Parnell, Jonathan Swift, and Roger Casement. All were creators—whether they conceived their life artistically, conceived an intellectual vision of Ireland free, or made lasting art. Their powers were matched by the magnitude of their defeat, for all, except Swift, were violently crucified by the mob for their irregular private lives. In defeat, however, they revealed transcendent heroism, as they faced their enemies with aristocratic disdain and unfailing bravery. Their constantly recreated heroic images inspired and haunted Yeats in art and politics, showed him ways to remake himself and to reconcile his devotion to art with his duty to Ireland. Yeats's Heroic Figures traces the intersections of the vivid figures in the "human drama" Yeats saw as history from 1883 to 1938, and considers their shaping forces upon Yeats's art, philosophy, and life. It is the first study to consider these four heroes together, and it brings to light much material previously neglected in comprehensive studies of Yeats.
Author: Michael Steinman
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349065552
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Author: Geraldine Higgins
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137280956
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 365
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This book reassesses the cultural and political dimensions of the Irish Revival's heroic ideal and explores its implications for the construction of Irish modernity. By foregrounding the heroic ideal, it shows how the cultural landscape carved out by these writers is far from homogenous.
Author: Warwick Gould
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349068381
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Author: K. P. S. Jochum
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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This bibliography is the second revised edition of a book first published in 1978 under a somewhat different title. Apart from correcting mistakes, the second edition extends the coverage of material until 1986 and includes many items from 1987 and 1988. It also adds numerous items that should have been included in the first edition but had somehow escaped my notice.
Author: Richard J. Finneran
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780472113347
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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The most recent volume of this distinguished annual
Author: Collectif
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Caen
ISBN: 2841334465
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : fr
Pages : 148
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Dans ce recueil convergent différents regards sur la poésie de W.B. Yeats. Ces pages le situent par rapport à d’autres poètes comme MacNeice. Elles nous promènent aussi des premiers volumes, où l’espace de l’écriture devient l’écriture de l’espace, à Responsabilities, volume qui témoigne d’une intensité qu’Ezra Pound qualifie de « robustesse nouvelle », puis à travers les thèmes sexuels, politiques et esthétiques de Michael Robartes and the Dancer. Nous abordons ensuite les grands poèmes de la maturité avec The Tower. Cet ouvrage envisage également des sujets généraux, comme l’importance de la tradition pour Yeats, sa conception de l’au-delà avec la dette envers l’Inde en particulier, son attitude face à la dégénérescence, sa vision de l’Apocalypse avec le symbole de la spirale. D’autres études se concentrent sur certains grands poèmes tels que « The Circus Animais Desertion », qui tisse ensemble et la vie et l’art, ou « Lapis Lazuli » et la notion de « joie tragique ».
Author: Leslie Gale Burgevin
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Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Author: Leonard E. Nathan
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Languages : en
Pages : 322
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