Yeats, Otherness and the Orient; Aesthetic and Spiritual Bearings

ISBN-13: 9781787078062 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 352 str.

Nicholas Meihuizen

Opis

This book explores how Yeats's relationships with Otherness and the Orient enabled him to develop his own creative abilities and spiritual understanding in expansive ways. Facing Otherness with an extraordinary philosophical intensity, he was able to uncover aspects of the depths of his own being.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Orientalism - Style - Indeterminacy, Otherness and Time - The Daimon and Leo Africanus - Per Amica Silentia Lunae, Derrida and Freud - The Noh - Byzantium and Spiritual Aesthetics - India and Spiritual Discrimination.

O autorze

Nicholas Meihuizen teaches English at North-West University in South Africa. Apart from Yeats, his research interests include Heaney, Camoes, South African fiction and poetry and the Romantics, as various essay and book publications attest. One of the top ten Humanities researchers on his campus over a number of years, he has received numerous travel and research grants from his institution and the National Research Foundation of South Africa and has supervised theses on topics as varied as Yeats, Steinbeck, Shakespeare, Mary Oliver, online poetry, digital gaming, Coleridge, Keats, Wordsworth, Zimbabwean novels, and Peter Carey.