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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"W. B. Yeats"”.
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The Deirdre Theme in AE, W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge
… Revival. Under the leadership of AE and 1. B. Yeats, young writers sought their inspiration in the glories of Ireland's heroic age rather than the sorrows of her more recent past. How the best-loved and most enduring of the legends, “Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach,” was woven by these two …
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Outfacing history: the artistic influences of W. B. Yeats and others on Seamus Heaney's Noughties poetry
… collections, the artistic influences of W.B. Yeats are discussed, in particular Yeatsian intransigence and the idea of art as conducive to civilisation, Yeats’s dialecticism, and the latter’s attitude towards art and personal mortality. These ideas assist Heaney in finding a way to write as a …
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The Apollonian and Dionysian Modes in Lyric Poetry and Their Development in The Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Dylan Thomas
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Narrative discourse in W. B. Yeats's "A Vision": An analysis of the interrelationships of narrators and narrative transmissions
W. B. Yeats's A Vision has not been the subject of a comprehensive analysis. The central purpose of this study is to provide an analysis of the narrative discourse of A Vision in which Yeats frames an intricate web of relationships between narrators and narrative transmissions. Yeats's narrator …
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The Hindu concept of pure consciousness in the poetry of pure consciousness in the poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rabindranath Tagore, and W. B. Yeats: a comparative study
… Ramón Jiménez, Rabindranath Tagore, and W. B. Yeats. The main emphasis of the study is on affinities and influences—a product of shared values, contacts and cross-fertilizations. The poetry of these three artists strongly parallels the psychology and philosophy of Vedanta, which is that aspect …
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The Early Yeats and Greek Myth
<p>The subject of this study is Yeats’s use of Greek myth in his early poems. By early poems is here meant those poems contained in Crossways (1889), The Rose (1893), The Wind Among the Reeds (1894), In the Seven Woods (1904), The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910), and Responsibilities (1914) as …
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Replacing the Priest: Tradition, Politics, and Religion in Early Modern Irish Drama.
… In response to this conflict of identity, W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory argued the need for an Irish theatre that was demonstrative of the Irish people, returning to the literary traditions to the Celtic heritage. What resulted was a questioning of religion and politics in Ireland, …
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"The Fact of God": Form and Belief in British Modernist Poetry
… in the works of British modernist poets W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Mina Loy, T.S. Eliot, Basil Bunting, Philip Larkin, and Thom Gunn. Moving from Celtic mythos to Buddhist philosophy, Anglo-Catholic prayer to ancient Greek burial rites, I argue that spirituality and poetic experimentation were …
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Staging Europe, Staging Ireland: Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov in Irish Cultural Politics, 1899--1922
… and complementary to those advocated by W. B. Yeats and Irish-Irelanders, it restores critical access to those sites of openness whose significance was later played down to ensure a coherent, Abbey-centered, narrative of Irish national drama.
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Talking back: audience collaboration and intervention in modernist and postwar drama
… spectatorship and agency. The dramas of W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, and John Arden pursue such a blurring by positioning spectators as collaborators rather than passive bodies upon whom the production works. My study demonstrates how these plays represent a hitherto unrecognized …
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"Something for the Dignity of Ireland:" Lady Gregory's Portrayal of Deirdre and Maeve in <em>Cuchulain of Muirthemne</em>
… and her relationships with peers such as W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge. Several of Lady Gregory's plays such as Urania and Kinconi are contrasted to <em>Cuchulain of Muirihemm</em> to demonstrate that Lady Gregory can, and did, write about strong, independent women.</p> <p>As a nearly literal …
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William Butler Yeats and Edmund Dulac; a correspondence: 1916-1938
In 1916 William Butler Yeats, Edmund Dulac, and Ezra Pound were caught up together in the study of Japanese Noh drama, and were experimenting with a production of Yeats' first play using that form, "At the Hawk's Well." This collection of Yeatsfs correspondence with Dulac, which begins in that …
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Otherwordly modernism: magic, mediums, and coloniality
… artistic projects of George and William Butler Yeats, Pamela Colman Smith, Jean Rhys, and Mina Loy, I demonstrate how these authors and artists seek “otherworlds” to revitalize their lives and art but how their conceptualizations of and attempts to reach such places depend on asymmetrical and …
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Irish modernism and the machine
… Eglinton, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, W.B. Yeats, and Samuel Beckett depict machines in texts in order to interrogate the status of Ireland's modernity. Are trains, dynamos (power generators), and bicycles signs of Ireland’s progress? Instead of an affirmation, I posit that Irish modernists …