Yeats, Revival, and the Temporalities of Irish Modernism

Yeats, Revival, and the Temporalities of Irish Modernism offers a new understanding of a writer whose revivalist commitments are often regarded in terms of nostalgic yearning and dreamy romanticism. It counters such conventions by arguing that Yeats's revivalism is an inextricable part of his modernism. Gregory Castle provides a new reading of Yeats that is informed by the latest research on the Irish Revival and guided by the phenomenological idea of worldmaking, a way of looking at literature as an aesthetic space with its own temporal and spatial norms, its own atmosphere generated by language, narrative, and literary form. The dialectical relation between the various worlds created in the work of art generate new ways of accounting for time beyond the limits of historical thinking. It is just this worldmaking power that links Yeats's revivalism to his modernism and constructs new grounds for recognizing his life and work.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Castle, Gregory (Arizona State University) Castle, Castle Gregory
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2024
• EAN: 9781009411677
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0941167-7
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Poetry, 20th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Ireland, Poetry by individual poets, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)