Marjorie Howes / John Kelly (eds.)

The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats

Herausgeber: Howes, Marjorie; Kelly, John

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Produktbeschreibung

This accessible and thought-provoking Companion explains and synthesises major themes of Yeatss life and work: his lifelong engagement with Ireland, his complicated relationship to the English literary tradition, his literary, social, and political criticism and the evolution of his complex spiritual and religious sense. First-time readers of Yeats as well as more advanced scholars will welcome this comprehensive account of Yeats's career with its useful chronological outline and survey of the most important current trends in Yeats scholarship as an essential introduction for students and teachers of Yeats.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9780521650892
• ISBN-10: 0521650895
• Artikelnr.: 21297580

Autorenporträt

Marjorie Howes is Associate Professor of English and Irish Studies at Boston College.
John Kelly is Professor of English at Oxford University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology
1. Introduction Marjorie Howes
2. Yeats and Romanticism George Bornstein
3. Yeats, Victorianism and the 1890s George Watson
4. Yeats and Modernism Daniel Albright
5. The later poetry Helen Vendler
6. Yeats and the drama Bernard O'Donoghue
7. Yeats and criticism Declan Kiberd
8. Yeats, folklore and Irish legend James Pethica
9. Yeats and the occult Margaret Mills Harper
10. Yeats and gender Elizabeth Butler Cullingford
11. Yeats and politics Jonathan Allison
12. Yeats and the postcolonial Marjorie Howes
Guide to further reading.