Progress and Identity in the Plays of W.B. Yeats, 1892-1907

Informationen zum Autor Barbara A. Suess Klappentext First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung Explores the ways in which Yeats's plays offer an alternative form of progress via a philosophical system of opposites: always seeking the opposite, the nature of which changes as we change, we continually augment our personalities, and ultimately improve society, with the inclusion of the other. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One: [F]ull of personified averages: Progress in the Victorian and Edwardian Era Chapter Two: Literatures of Progress Chapter Three: Progress as Material Gain: The Bourgeois Peasant as Invented Tradition in The Countess Cathleen, Cathleen ni Houlihan, and The Land of Heart's Desire Chapter Four: Recovering the Feminized Other: Psychological Androgyny in The King's Threshold, On Baile's Strand, and Deirdre Chapter Five: [N]ice little playwrights, making pretty little plays: Yeats, Irish Identity, and the Critical Response Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Suess, Barbara Suess, Barbara A. Suess, Dr Barbara A. Suess, Suess Suess
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2003
• EAN: 9780415966542
• ISBN: 978-0-415-96654-2
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors; Studies in Major Literary Auth; Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, Literary studies: plays and playwrights