W.B. Yeats and World Literature: The Subject of Poetry

ISBN-13: 9780367880071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 216 str.

Barry Sheils

Opis

Arguing for a reconsideration of William Butler Yeats’s work in light of contemporary studies of world literature, Barry Sheils makes a strong case for reading Yeats’s work in the context of a broad comprehension of its global modernity. He shows how Yeats enables a fuller understanding of the relationship between the extensive map of world literar

Spis treści

Yeatsian transmissions: between Kiltartan and the sky.  Folklore and the new world of text.  'Put into English': the monoglot translator and world literature.  'Woman' and the poetics of destitution.  Fanatic subjectivity in the modern state.

O autorze

Barry Sheils is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin.