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_bB73 2011
100 1 _aBradley, Anthony,
_d1942-
245 1 0 _aImagining Ireland in the poems and plays of W.B. Yeats
_h[electronic resource] :
_bnation, class, and state /
_cAnthony Bradley.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bPalgrave Macmillan,
_c2011.
300 _ax, 256 p.
490 1 _aNew directions in Irish and Irish American literature
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note: -- "Romantic Ireland": Early Poems and Plays *Nation and Class in Responsibilities * History, Gender, Modernism: The Wild Swans at Coole and Michael Robartes and the Dancer * Modernism, Irishness, and the Postcolonial State: The Tower and The Winding Stair * A Return to Origins: New Poems and Last Poems.
520 _a"An important part of the Irish national imaginary, Yeat's poems and plays have helped to invent the nation of Ireland, while critiquing the modern Irish state that emerged from the nation's revolutionary period. This study offers a chronological account of Yeat's volumes of poetry, contextualizing and analyzing them in light of Irish cultural and political history."--
_cProvided by publisher.
520 _a"This book offers a lucid and comprehensive account of Yeats's poems, volume by volume, in the context of Ireland's period of decolonization, from the late nineteenth century through the 1930s. The connections between Yeats's writing and politics are explored in the light of contemporary theories of nationalism and modernism. Yeats imagined revolutionary Ireland in both Romantic and Modernist modes, as a nation struggling to come into being, and as the center of apocalyptic fragmentation. His mastery and extension of the traditional forms of verse, from ballad and sonnet to modernist sequence or constellation, gives aesthetic shape to the preoccupations of nation and cultural crisis. This well-written analysis of Yeats's poetry and drama also introduces readers to the major scholarship on Yeats"--
_cProvided by publisher.
533 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
600 1 0 _aYeats, W. B.
_q(William Butler),
_d1865-1939
_xPolitical and social views.
600 1 0 _aYeats, W. B.
_q(William Butler),
_d1865-1939
_xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 _aPolitics and literature
_zIreland
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aPolitics and literature
_zIreland
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aNationalism and literature
_zIreland
_xHistory.
650 0 _aModernism (Literature)
_zIreland.
651 0 _aIreland
_xIn literature.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
710 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _aNew directions in Irish and Irish American literature.
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