Deep-rooted Things: Empire And Nation in the Poetry And Drama of William Butler Yeats
Автор:Rob Doggett Год: 2006 Издание:University of Notre Dame Press Страниц: 188 ISBN: 0268025835 In "Deep-Rooted Things", Rob Doggett examines Yeats's shifting relationship with the warring discourses of British cultural imperialism and Irish nationalism during Ireland's transition from colony to partially independent nation. By focusing on key historical events that Yeats witnessed and on the nationalist movements he both embraced and resisted, Doggett identifies the core features of Yeats's aesthetic program through new readings of central poems and plays in the Yeats canon. Doggett presents Yeatsian nationalism as a fluid category, a series of masks that Yeats adopted, rejected, and re-created throughout his life. He casts Yeats's continual artistic reinvention - his privileging of contradiction over resolution - as repeated attempts to provide in art some foundations for national unity. He reveals Yeats's deep and often conflicted response to issues of identity, history, and nationhood - issues always central to discourses of colonization, colonial resistance, and...
