Reframing Yeats - Genre, Allusion and History

Reframing Yeats , the first critical study of its kind, uses a focus on genre and allusion to engage with a broad range of W. B. Yeats''s writings, examining instances of his poetry, autobiographical writings, criticism, and drama. Identifying a schism in recent Yeatsian criticism between biographical and formalist methodologies, Armstrong''s study combines an historicist perspective with close attention to literary form. The result is a flexible approach that casts new light on how Yeats''s texts interact with their interpretative frameworks. Cognizant of both literary and political history, this book presents new interpretations of Yeats''s work. Not only does it provide fresh readings of texts such as "The Municipal Gallery Re-visited," "Among School Children" and "The Resurrection", but it also raises important new questions concerning Yeats''s relationship to Modernism and literary genre.>

About the author

Charles Ivan Armstrong is Professor of British Literature, University of Agder, Norway.

Product details

• Authors: Charles I Armstrong, Charles I. Armstrong, Armstrong Charles I.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.02.2015
• EAN: 9781474222853
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-2285-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Historicizing Modernism
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Ireland, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets