A Reader S Guide To The Plays Of W B Yeats

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Richard H Taylor
Publisher : Springer
Release : 1984-02-23
File : 206 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781349173679


The Plays Of W B Yeats

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This book investigates Yeats's experiments with the media of language and dance in his plays. He was allied to other artists of the 1890s in his fascination with the biblical dancer Salome and in his preoccupation with things Japanese, particularly 'Noh' Theatre with its central dance. The impact of Diaghliev's Ballets Russes also played its part in influencing Yeats's drama, and his interest in the 'dance-as-meaning' debate places him firmly not only in his time but also in our own.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : S. Ellis
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2016-07-27
File : 393 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781349272242


Behind The Scenes

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Behind the Scenes presents the story of Dublin's famous Abbey Theatre and its major creative personalities: W. B. Yeats, Annie Horniman, J. M. Synge, and Lady Gregory. Part history, part sociology, part biography, Frazier's work recreates the forces that shaped the Abbey stage, forces that involved the spirited participation of actors, audiences, press, and financiers as well as of the famous poet-playwright who was its co-director. His book unfolds an entertaining and suspenseful tale, centered on the undeniably autocratic personality of W.B. Yeats and with the political struggles of Ireland as a backdrop. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Adrian Frazier
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release : 2024-03-29
File : 294 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780520311114


W B Yeats

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This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Norman A. Jeffares
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2013-06-17
File : 497 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781136212246


W B Yeats And The Creation Of A Tragic Universe

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Maeve Good
Publisher : Springer
Release : 1987-03-16
File : 184 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781349082469


Yeats Annual No 3

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Warwick Gould
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2016-07-27
File : 347 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781349062065


Hidden Mutualities

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Hidden mutualities link the work of major postcolonial writers with Christopher Marlowe’s drama of the Faustian pact – the manipulation of the material world in exchange for the soul – written as the ‘scientific’ world-view was emerging which accompanied the imperial expansion of Europe and has determined the economic and social structures of the colonial and postcolonial world. This fascinating study brings together researches in widely different fields to show how Doctor Faustus reflects a Gnostic / Hermetic tradition marginalized within the dominant European power structures. Rediscovered in the Renaissance, and combined with occult arts such as alchemy and magic, this living tradition informs the work of ‘Magus’ figures such as Pico della Mirandola, Marcilio Ficino, Trithemius, Johannes Reuchlin, Agrippa of Nettesheim, Paracelsus and John Dee, who are reflected in the Faust tradition and in Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The second part investigates the dual legacy of the Magus. A counterpoint between a law-governed objective material world and an occult visionary pursuit of the divine potential of the human imagination is traced through the examples of Johan Kepler, Robert Fludd, Isaac Newton, William Blake, Rudyard Kipling, Aleister Crowley, W.B. Yeats, Wolfgang Pauli and C.G. Jung. In the third part, textual analysis reveals how attention to these Faustian themes opens new and exciting critical perspectives in appreciating the works of postcolonial writers, in particular Dimetos by Athol Fugard, Disappearance by David Dabydeen, Omeros by Derek Walcott, and the novels of Wilson Harris.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Michael Mitchell
Publisher : BRILL
Release : 2006-01-01
File : 352 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789401203647


A Reference Guide For English Studies

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Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release : 2023-11-10
File : 2816 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780520321878


The Thought Of W B Yeats

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This study focuses on the ideas of W.B. Yeats and explores his thinking on a wide range of fundamental subjects. Since opposites are central to Yeats's thought, the book begins with an analysis of this topic. The author then examines Yeats's views on religion, sex and politics, again scrutinising the opposites at play. The author considers Yeats's adherence to various anti-empirical belief systems and the transformation of his view of sex as largely a romantic concern to his later more 'earthy' perspective. Yeats's fundamentally Tory political inclinations are examined alongside his regrettable espousal of eugenics. In the second part of the book Yeats's view of history and of human character in A Vision are analysed. The author discusses Yeats's two versions of 'Sophocles' and his poems on Byzantium. The final chapter on Yeats's style stresses the pervasive use of embedded phrases and of terminal questions in the poems.

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Author : Brian Arkins
Publisher : Peter Lang
Release : 2010
File : 212 Pages
ISBN-13 : 3039119397


A Reader S Guide To Modern Irish Drama

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A Reader's Guide to Modern Irish Drama provides an introduction to one of the great dramatic and theatrical traditions of Western culture.

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Genre : Drama
Author : Sanford Sternlicht
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Release : 1998-06
File : 184 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015047068583