Yeats and postmodernism
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Yeats and postmodernism
(Irish studies)
Syracuse University Press, 1991
1st ed
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Bibliography: p. 191-194
Includes index
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In the last 25 years, there has been a revolution in literary study in the English-speaking world. It has involved two related shifts in understanding: the recognition that the study of literature requires a theoretical grounding and an acknowledgment that such a grounding is contingent upon the realization that ours is a postmodernist world. Despite much resistance from traditional literary historians and formalist critics, both of these assumptions inform today's most forceful and insightful academic literary analyses. Yet Yeats scholarship has remained largely embedded in traditional modes of critical theory. For the first time, a collection of original essays applies a wide spectrum of contemporary critical theories to major works in the Yeats canon, serving a models of how to read and work with Yeats from a postmodernist/poststructuralist perspective. Challenging us to rethink our most basic notions of how to read Yeats, these and other provocative essays offer ample evidence of the remarkable new perceptions that can be gained from applying poststructuralist criticism to Yeats.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - Yeats and poststructuralist criticism, Leonard Orr
- Yeat's postmodern rhetoric, Ronald Schleifer
- he liked the way his finger smelt - Yeats and the tropics of history, William Bonney
- under northern lights - re-visioning Yeats and the revival, Kieran Quinlan
- textual/sexual politics in Yeat's Leda and the Swan, William Johnsen
- the performativity of utterance in Deidre and the player queen, Kathleen O'Gorman
- poetic ritual and audience response - Yeats and the "No", Steven Putzel
- the doll as icon - the semiotics of the subject in Yeat's "The Dolls", Kitti Carriker
- the strange reward of all the discipline - Yeats and Foucault, Cheryl Herr
- Yeats, Bakhtin, orality, dyslexia, R.B.Kershner, Jr.
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