Kipling and Yeats at 150: Retrospectives/Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138343900 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 274 str.

Promodini Varma; Anubhav Pradhan

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This book evaluates the parallels, divergences, and convergences in the literary legacies of Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats. It sheds light on the conversational undercurrents that pull together the often diametrically polar worldviews of these two seminal figures.

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Introduction: 'When Two Strong Men Stand Face to Face': Locating Kipling with Yeats Part I. Influences and Legacies 1. Yeats and Kipling: Parallels, Divergences, and Convergences 2. Mowgli, the Law of the Jungle, and the Panchatantra 3. The Ungendered Self: Yeats’s 'A Prayer for My Daughter' in the Light of Indian Philosophy 4. Songs of the Wandering Aengus: Echoes of the Political Yeats in Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s The Habit of Fear Part II. Self and Society 5. Yeats, Kipling and the Haven-Finding Art 6. Transgressed Margins: Reading the ‘Other’ Kipling 7. ‘Turning from the Mirror to Meditation upon a Mask’: Yeats’s Search for his Daimon in 'Ego Dominus Tuus' 8. Kim’s Modern Education: Rudyard Kipling the Zealot Part III. Craft, Medium, Politics 9. The Chameleon and the Peacock: Kipling and Yeats as Creative Readers of Shakespeare 10. ‘The Writer is Indebted to the Pioneer and Civil and Military Gazette’: Kipling, Newspapers, and Poetry 11. Politics, Drama, and Poetry: The Political Vision of W.B. Yeats as Reflected in Select Plays and Poems 12. Redefining the Body of Censorship: Reading Rudyard Kipling’s Indian Short Stories (1888–1902) 13. Rudyard Kipling and the Networks of Empire: Writing Imperial Infrastructure in The Light that Failed and Captains Courageous Part IV. Masculinity and/as Empire 14. ‘The Passionless Passion of Slaughter’: Heroism and the Aesthetics of Violence 15. ‘I am not a Sahib’: Boys and Masculinity in Kipling’s Indian Fiction 16. Does Kipling’s "If" Appropriate the Gita? Correlating Empire, Muscular Christianity and Sthitaprajna 17. Chaps: Kipling, Yeats, and the Empire of Men