A Handbook devoted to the poet W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) that examines how his work as a poet, playwright, critic, and public figure in the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century continues to influence writing in English, Irish, and worldwide Anglophone literatures.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Preface
- Part 1. Such Friends: Predecessors and Collaborators
- 1: Claire Lynch: Self-Making
- 2: Seán Hewitt: Fairy and Folk Tales of Bedford Park
- 3: Peter McDonald: 'Never to leave that valley': Sligo
- 4: Francis O'Gorman: Among the Victorians
- 5: Nicholas Grene: Lady Gregory: Patronage, Collaboration, Mythopoeia
- 6: Joseph Hassett: John Quinn and the Literary Marketplace
- 7: Margaret Mills Harper: George Yeats
- 8: Nicholas Allen: The Writings of Jack Yeats
- Part 2. In and Through History
- 9: Geraldine Parsons: Ancient Ireland
- 10: R.F. Foster: The Ghost of Parnell
- 11: Edna Longley: Renaissance Italy: 'courtly images'
- 12: Hugh Haughton: Tradition and Phantasmagoria: Dante and Shakespeare
- 13: Geraldine Higgins: Talking back to history: From 'September 1913' to 'Easter, 1916'
- 14: Fran Brearton: 'Knights of the Air': Flight and Modernity
- 15: David Dwan: Revolution and Counter-Revolution
- 16: Lauren Arrington: Fascist Italy
- 17: Alan Gillis: The Thirties: 'The day brings round the night'
- 18: Adam Hanna: The Senate and the Stage
- 19: Adam Piette: 'Cast a cold eye': Death in Wartime
- Part 3. From the Global to the Interplanetary
- 20: Justin Quinn: Tagore, Pound and World English
- 21: Nathan Suhr-Sytsma: Africa
- 22: Jahan Ramazani: Asias
- 23: Katherine Ebury: 'The Scientific Revolution'
- 24: Cóilín Parsons: Planets
- 25: Neil Mann: Visionary Poetics
- Part 4. Genres and Medias
- 26: Charles Armstrong: Romanticism and Aestheticism
- 27: Claire Nally: Rites and Rhymes
- 28: Tom Walker: The most characteristic poet of modern Europe': Modernist Accommodations
- 29: Jack Quin: Illustrating
- 30: Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux: Family Business at Dun Emer and Cuala: Collaboration, Contention, and Creativity
- 31: Emilie Morin: In the Media
- Part 5. Playing Yeats
- 32: Susan Cannon Harris: Yeats's Early Plays: Gender, Genre, and Queer Collaboration
- 33: Akiko Manabe: 'A Country Over Wave': Japan, Noh, Kiogen
- 34: Zsuzsanna Balázs: Reading the Late Plays: Sexual Unorthodoxies
- 35: Patrick Lonergan: Playing in Ireland
- 36: Susan Jones: Dance
- Part 6. Reading Yeats
- 37: Stephanie Burt: Imperfect Forms
- 38: Matthew Campbell: Visionary Comedy
- 39: Lucy McDiarmid: Masculinities
- 40: Wayne K. Chapman: Late Style: Art v. Life
- 41: Warwick Gould: Editing
- Postscript
- 42: Vona Groarke: Yeats and Contemporary Poetry: Twelve Speculative Takes
