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001 2014022371
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008 140606s2014 inu b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780268011208 (paperback : acid-free paper)
020 $a0268011206 (paper : acid-free paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPR5907$b.Y37 2014
082 00 $a821/.8$223
084 $aLIT004120$aPOE005020$2bisacsh
245 00 $aYeats and afterwords :$bChrist, culture, and crisis /$cedited by Marjorie Howes and Joseph Valente.
264 1 $aNotre Dame, Indiana :$bUniversity of Notre Dame Press,$c[2014]
300 $avii, 348 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"In Yeats and Afterwords, contributors articulate W. B. Yeats's powerful, multilayered sense of belatedness as part of his complex literary method. They explore how Yeats deliberately positioned himself at various historical endpoints-of Romanticism, of the Irish colonial experience, of the Ascendancy, of civilization itself-and, in doing so, created a distinctively modernist poetics of iteration capable of registering the experience of finality and loss. While the crafting of such a poetics remained a constant throughout Yeats's career, the particular shape it took varied over time, depending on which lost object Yeats was contemplating. By tracking these vicissitudes, the volume offers new ways of thinking about the overarching trajectory of Yeats's poetic engagements. Yeats and Afterwords proceeds in three stages, involving past-pastness, present-pastness, and future-pastness. The first, "The Last Romantics," examines how Yeats repeats classic motifs and verbal formulations from his literary forebears in order to express the circumscribed cultural options with which he struggles. The essays in this section often uncover Yeats's relation to sources and precursors that are surprising or have been relatively neglected by scholars. The second section, "Yeats and Afterwords," looks at how Yeats subjects his own past sentiments, insights, and styles to critical negation, crafting his own afterwords in various ways. The last section, "Yeats's Aftertimes," explores how, thanks to the stature Yeats achieved through its invention, his style of belatedness itself comes to be reiterated by other writers. Yeats is a towering figure in literary history, hard to follow and harder to avoid, and later writers often found themselves producing words that were, in some sense, his afterwords. "This is a groundbreaking collection that will have a major impact on Yeats studies and will be useful for scholars working more broadly in Irish and modernist studies." -Rob Doggett, SUNY Geneseo"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
600 10 $aYeats, W. B.$q(William Butler),$d1865-1939$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aHowes, Marjorie Elizabeth,$eeditor.
700 1 $aValente, Joseph,$eeditor.