The Reception Of W B Yeats In Europe

Author : Klaus Peter Jochum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781623569518

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The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Europe by Klaus Peter Jochum Pdf

The intellectual and cultural impact of British and Irish writers cannot be assessed without reference to their reception in European countries. These essays, prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, record the ways in which W. B. Yeats has been translated, evaluated and emulated in different national and linguistic areas of continental Europe. There is a remarkable split between the often politicized reception in Eastern European countries but also Spain on the one hand, and the more sober scholarly response in Western Europe on the other. Yeats's Irishness and the pre-eminence of his lyrical work have posed continuous challenges. Three further essays describe the widely divergent reactions to Yeats in his native Ireland, during his lifetime and up to the most recent years.

Author : Michael McAteer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521769112

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Yeats and European Drama by Michael McAteer Pdf

Michael McAteer examines the plays of W. B. Yeats, considering their place in European theatre during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This original study considers the relationship Yeats's work bore with those of the foremost dramatists of the period, drawing comparisons with Henrik Ibsen, Maurice Maeterlinck, August Strindberg, Luigi Pirandello and Ernst Toller. It also shows how his plays addressed developments in theatre at the time, with regard to the Naturalist, Symbolist, Surrealist and Expressionist movements, and how symbolism identified Yeats's ideas concerning labour, commerce and social alienation. This book is invaluable to graduates and academics studying Yeats but also provides a fascinating account for those in Irish studies and in the wider field of drama.

Author : Anastasia Psoni
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527523807

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The Image of the Feminine in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos by Anastasia Psoni Pdf

Modernism, as a powerful movement, saw the literary and artistic traditions, as well as pure science, starting to evolve radically, creating a crisis, even chaos, in culture and society. Within this chaos, myth offered an ordered picture of that world employing symbolic and poetic images. Both W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos embraced myth and symbols because they liberate imagination and raise human consciousness, bringing together humans and the cosmos. Being opposed to the rigidity of scientific materialism that inhibits spiritual development, the two poets were waiting for a new age and a new religion, expecting that they, themselves, would inspire their community and usher in the change. In their longing for a new age, archaeology was a magnetic field for Yeats and Sikelianos, as it was for many writers and thinkers. After Sir Arthur Evans’s discovery of the Minoan Civilization where women appeared so peacefully prominent, the dream of re-creating a gynocentric mythology was no longer a fantasy. In Yeats’s and Sikelianos’s gynocentric mythology, the feminine figure appears in various forms and, like in a drama, it plays different roles. Significantly, a gynocentric mythology permeates the work of the two poets and this mythology is of pivotal importance in their poetry, their poetics and even in their life as the intensity of their creative desire brought to them female personalities to inspire and guide them. Indeed, in Yeats’s and Sikelianos’s gynocentric mythology, the image of the feminine holds a place within a historical context taking the reader into a larger social, political and religious space.

Author : Wit Pietrzak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319600895

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The Critical Thought of W. B. Yeats by Wit Pietrzak Pdf

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.

Author : Przemyslaw Marciniak,Dion C. Smythe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134808380

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The Reception of Byzantium in European Culture since 1500 by Przemyslaw Marciniak,Dion C. Smythe Pdf

Studies on the reception of the classical tradition are an indispensable part of classical studies. Understanding the importance of ancient civilization means also studying how it was used subsequently. This kind of approach is still relatively rare in the field of Byzantine Studies. This volume, which is the result of the range of interests in (mostly) non-English-speaking research communities, takes an important step to filling this gap by investigating the place and dimensions of ’Byzantium after Byzantium’. This collection of essays uses the idea of ’reception-theory’ and expands it to show how European societies after Byzantium have responded to both the reality, and the idea of Byzantine Civilisation. The authors discuss various forms of Byzantine influence in the post-Byzantine world from architecture to literature to music to the place of Byzantium in modern political debates (e.g. in Russia). The intentional focus of the present volume is on those aspects of Byzantine reception less well-known to English-reading audiences, which accounts for the inclusion of Bulgarian, Czech, Polish and Russian perspectives. As a result this book shows that although so-called 'Byzantinism' is a pan-European phenomenon, it is made manifest in local/national versions. The volume brings together specialists from various countries, mainly Byzantinists, whose works focus not only on Byzantine Studies (that is history, literature and culture of the Byzantine Empire), but also on the influence of Byzantine culture on the world after the Fall of Constantinople.

Author : Daniel Tompsett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429885037

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Unlocking the Poetry of W. B. Yeats by Daniel Tompsett Pdf

Unlocking the Poetry of W.B. Yeats undertakes a thorough re-reading of Yeats' oeuvre as an extended meditation on the image and theme of the heart as it is evident within the poetry. It places the heart at the centre of a complex web of Yeatsian preoccupations and associations—from the biographical, to the poetic and philosophical, to the mythological and mystical. In particular, the book seeks to unlock Yeats’ mystifying aesthetic vision via his understanding of the ancient Egyptian "Weighing of the Heart" ceremony. The work provides a chronological narrative arc that looks to use the theme of the heart as it recurs in the poetry in order to circumvent and overcome more established frameworks. Its purpose is to offer refreshing ways of conceptualizing and building alternatives to more deeply entrenched, but not entirely satisfactory arguments that have been offered since Yeats' death in 1939, while demonstrating the centrality of the occult to Yeats' art.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2426 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : PSU:000057121345

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MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by Anonim Pdf

Author : Warwick Gould
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781909254350

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The Living Stream by Warwick Gould Pdf

Memories of the man are shared by Seamus Heaney, Christopher Rush and Colin Smythe, who compiles a bibliography of Jeffares’s work. Terence Brown, Neil Corcoran, Warwick Gould, Joseph M. Hassett, Phillip L. Marcus, Ann Saddlemyer, Ronald Schuchard, Deirdre Toomey and Helen Vendler offer essays on such topics as Yeats and the Colours of Poetry, Yeats’s Shakespeare, Yeats and Seamus Heaney, Lacrimae Rerum and Tragic Joy, Raftery’s work on Yeats’s Thoor Ballylee, Edmund Dulac’s portrait of Mrs George Yeats, The Tower as an anti-Modernist monument, with close studies of ‘Vacillation’, ‘Her Triumph’, and ‘The Cold Heaven’. Throughout, the essays are inflected with memories of Jeffares and his critical methods. The volume is rounded with further essays on A Vision by Neil Mann and Matthew de Forrest, while reviews of recent editions and studies are provided by Matthew Campbell, Wayne K. Chapman, Sandra Clark, Denis Donoghue, Nicholas Grene, Joseph M. Hassett, and K.P.S. Jochum. Yeats Annual is published by Open Book Publishers in association with the Institute of English Studies, University of London.

Author : Roselinde Supheert
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004489721

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Yeats in Holland by Roselinde Supheert Pdf

This book presents a broad survey of the Dutch reception of the work of William Butler Yeats during his lifetime. Yeats' important, wide-ranging oeuvre marks the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The response to his poetry, drama and prose exemplifies the Dutch reception of English romanticism as well as modernism, and reveals the workings of canon formation. The author has investigated the early days of Dutch Anglistics, showing that teachers of English were of little influence in the Yeats reception. Instead, the Dutch sympathy for the Irish cause and a taste for romantic literature prove to be essential factors in arousing enthusiasm for his early writings. Apart from the well-publicised performances of The Only Jealousy of Emer, Yeats' modern work was given little attention. Although poets like A. Roland Holst, P.N. van Eyck and J.C. Bloem were very well acquainted with Yeats' oeuvre and accumulated impressive collections, reading modern Yeats largely remained a private affair.

Author : Stefano Evangelista
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847060051

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The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe by Stefano Evangelista Pdf

Comprehensive volume of international research on the European reception of Oscar Wilde.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004342743

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Silence in Modern Irish Literature by Anonim Pdf

Silence in Modern Irish Writing examines the meanings and forms of silence in Irish poetry, fiction and drama in modern times. These are discussed in psychological, ethical, topographical, spiritual and aesthetic terms.

Author : Gregory Castle,Patrick Bixby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107176720

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A History of Irish Modernism by Gregory Castle,Patrick Bixby Pdf

This book attests to the unique development of modernism in Ireland - driven by political as well as artistic concerns.

Author : U. Kockel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780230282988

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Re-Visioning Europe by U. Kockel Pdf

Drawing on ethno-anthropological fieldwork, this book considers issues of identity and belonging in Europe from a consciously emic perspective. The book explores issues such as borders, migration, economic organization, heritage, and the politics and practice of developing cultural understanding.

Author : Geert Lernout,Wim Van Mierlo
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847146014

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The Reception of James Joyce in Europe by Geert Lernout,Wim Van Mierlo Pdf

A major scholarly collection of international research on the reception of James Joyce in Europe

Author : Theo D'haen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136635717

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The Routledge Concise History of World Literature by Theo D'haen Pdf

This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to and overview of World Literature. Tracing the term from its earliest roots and situating it within a number of relevant contexts from postcolonialism to postmodernism, Theo D’haen examines: the return of the term "world literature" and its changing meaning Goethe’s concept of Weltliteratur and how this relates to current debates theories and theorists who have had an impact on world literature non-canonical and less-known literatures from around the globe the possibility and implications of a definition of world literature. This book is the ideal guide to an increasingly popular and important term in literary studies. It is accessible and engaging and will be invaluable to students of world literature, comparative literature, translation and postcolonial studies and anyone with an interest in these or related topics.