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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"W.B. Yeats."”.
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W.B. Yeats, 1904 Popular Theatre and the Politics of Cuchullain
… Strand is one of the best acting plays that Mr Yeats has written…there is less of the mystical and more of the human element in the composition than in most of Mr Yeats dramas [and] the characters are virile and actual” (1976, 128-9).This quote, from the Freeman’s Journal, illustrates the …
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Ekphrasis and ethics in the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Eavan Boland.
This study argues that W.B. Yeats is an important poetic precursor for Eavan Boland, and particularly for her sophisticated engagement with the age-old subgenre of ekphrasis, in which a poem responds to a work of visual art. I explore how both poets explode the boundaries of poetic form and …
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The image of woman in the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)
… this study is to examine the development of W.B. Yeats's concept of woman as it is revealed in his poetry and to evaluate its literary treatment. It is generally accepted that women played an important part in Yeats's life and that they exerted a significant influence in various directions - a …
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Prophets of the beast: the modernist esotericism of D.H. Lawrence and W.B. Yeats
… the esoteric tradition on D.H. Lawrence and W.B. Yeats’ thought and examines both authors’ writings in light of the antidemocratic political religions that emerged during and after their respective careers. While a number of extant studies investigate the connection between modernism and the …
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‘Just as strenuous a nationalist as ever’, W.B. Yeats and postcolonialism: tensions, ambiguities, and uncertainties
This study investigates William Butler Yeats’s relationship to the issues of colonialism and anti-colonialism and his stance as a postcolonial poet. A considerable part of Yeats criticism has read him either as a revolutionary and anti-colonial figure or a poet with reactionary and colonialist …
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Subversive pseudo-dialogic : W.B. Yeats's use of the dialogic to present the monologic.
… unique insight into the poetry and plays of W.B. Yeats. Though this early twentieth century Irish writer favored poetry over the novel form on which Bakhtin based his studies, his compositions can be better understood and his intentions further elucidated in light of Bakhtin's explanations of …
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Recovering the roots: exploring myth, rural life, and the pastoral in W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney
Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.
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A Feminist Analysis of the Implications of Darwin's Theory of Sexual Selection on English Literature
… in which either James Joyce in Ulysses and W.B. Yeats in the poems the "Three Bushes" and the six attendant songs either confirm or defy sexual selection. I am primarily concerned with ways in which these authors viewed gender and class stereotypes, and whether they believed that this behavior …
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The phantom of joy: Emotion, affect, and the problem of persistence in modernist literature
… feeling. I consider how modernist writers (W.B. Yeats, May Sinclair, James Joyce, Mina Loy) endeavor to produce a realignment of self and body that is expansive and joyful, though always in relation to intense negative affect. Bodies and feelings are highly contested and gendered domains, and in …
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Advent of the Everyday Cathleen: Katharine Tynan and Motifs of Irish Identity 1911-1921
… and artistic circles of colleagues such as W.B. Yeats and George Russell (AE); alongside her male counterparts, she fostered friendships and collaborated in reciprocal mentorships that cultivated and promoted a renewed Irish identity in contrast to England’s anglicization of Irish culture, …
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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 …
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In Fairyland Or Thereabout: The Fairies as Nationalist Symbol in Irish Literature by and after William Allingham
… anxieties. In Chapter III, I discuss both W.B. Yeats and William Allingham in reference to their use of the scary fairy as a means of working out their anxieties over the future of Ireland. I discuss Yeats's "The Stolen Child" as well as Allingham's The Fairies and The Ban-shee, A Ballad of …
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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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Writers and Fighters: a comparative study of the Irish literary revival (1900 - 1922) with the revolutionary Chinese May Fourth literary era (1915 - 1927)
… provides a comparative analysis of works by W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) vs Lu Xun (1881-1936), Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) vs Lao She (1899-1966), Lady Gregory (1852-1932) vs Qiu Jin (1875-1907), and, finally, John Millington Synge (1871-1909) and Cao Yu (1910-1996). The research is based on archive …
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The Celtic Twilight as Reflected in the Two-Piano Works of Joan Trimble (1915-2000)
… was named after a collection of folklore by W.B. Yeats, a work that was inspired by Ireland’s native folklore and contained themes of twilight, nature, and the supernatural, mainly that of the “fairy faith” from old Pagan Ireland. The movement, which was created by the Anglo-Irish ruling classes …
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“They shall be speaking forever” : performing revolution, riot, and the nation in the centenary commemorations of Ireland’s 1916 Rising
… history of Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), by W.B. Yeats and Augusta, Lady Gregory, in order to illuminate how nationalists in Ireland represented and performed nation, gender, and violence in the years leading up to the Rising. Examining the play as an example of the “blood sacrifice” scenario, I …
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Irish disability: Postcolonial narratives of stunted development
… a surge of Irish nationalism demanding, as W.B. Yeats writes in Cathleen Ni Houlihan, that a true Irishman “must give [Ireland] all” to the point of martyrdom. In bringing together disability studies and postcolonial Irish literature, I investigate the creation of a standard national narrative …
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Matters of verisimilitude: transitional and transnational realisms in Ireland, 1880-1940
… respond to Irish conditions. I then trace W.B. Yeats’ early (and failed) attempts to privilege Symbolism as a non-realist, non-English transnational influence on the Abbey Theatre and the broader Revival project. I furthermore consider how Yeats’ aesthetic project positioned the Abbey Theatre as …
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