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Examines the relationship between Wilde and Yeats for the first time across a book-length study
Argues that the image and concepts of Oscar Wilde lie at the very core of Yeats’s creative work
Pays close attention to unpublished manuscript versions of Yeats’s plays
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Influence and Identity
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Front Matter
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Mask and Image
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Salomé : Symbolism, Dance and Theories of Being
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Back Matter
About this book
Section One, 'Influence and Identity' (1888 – 1895), explores the personal relationship of these two writers, their nationality and historical context as factors in influence. Section Two, 'Mask and Image' (1888 – 1917), traces the creative process leading to Yeats’s construction of the antithetical mask, and his ideas on image, in relation to the role of Wilde as his precursor. Finally, 'Salomé: Symbolism, Dance and Theories of Being' (1891 – 1939) concentrates on the immense influence that Wilde’s symbolist play, Salomé, wrought on Yeats’s imaginative work and creative sensibility.
Authors and Affiliations
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Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Noreen Doody
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Influence of Oscar Wilde on W.B. Yeats
Book Subtitle: "An Echo of Someone Else’s Music"
Authors: Noreen Doody
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89548-2
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) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89547-5Published: 22 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07800-3Published: 03 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89548-2Published: 07 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 340
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics