Overview
Engages with a hitherto under-studied aspect of Yeats's oeuvre
Addresses the Irish political contexts in which Yeats's essays were published
Highlights the important public controversies with which Yeats became involved
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book focuses on W. B. Yeats’s critical writings, an aspect of his oeuvre which has been given limited treatment so far. It traces his critical work from his earliest articles, through to his occult treatises, and all the way to his last pamphlets, in which he sought to delineate the idea of a literary culture: a community of people willing to credit poetry with the central role in imagining and organising social praxis throughout society. The chapters of this study investigate the contexts in which Yeats’s thought developed, his many disputes over the shape of Irish cultural politics, the future of poetry and the place literature occupies in the world. What transpires is an image of Yeats who is strung between the impulses of faith in the existence of a supernatural order and ironic scepticism as to the possibility of ever capturing that order in language.
This study is distinguished by its grounding of Yeats's critical agenda in a broader context through textual analysis. In addition, it organises and systematises his conceptions of poetry and its social role through its approach to his criticism as a fully-fledged area of his artistic practice.The monograph has been written within the framework of the project financed by The National Science Centre, Cracow, Poland, pursuant to the decision number DEC-2013/09/D/HS2/02782.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Critical Thought of W. B. Yeats
Authors: Wit Pietrzak
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60089-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60088-8Published: 07 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86774-8Published: 11 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60089-5Published: 29 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 258
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics