Imagining Ireland in the poems and plays of W. B.Yeats: nation, class, and state

An important part of the national imaginary, Yeat's work has helped to inventthe nation of Ireland, while critiquing the modern state that emerged from it's revolutionary period. This study offers a chronological account of Yeat's volumes of poetry, contextualizing and analyzing them in light of Irish cultural and political history. ANTHONY BRADLEY Professor of English at the University of Vermont, USA. INDICE: 'Romantic Ireland': Early Poems and Plays - Nation and Class in Responsibilities - History, Gender, Modernism: The Wild Swans at Coole and Michael Robartes and the Dancer - Modernism, Irishness, and the Postcolonial State:The Tower and The Winding Stair - A Return to Origins: New Poems and Last Poems

• ISBN: 978-1-4039-7058-9
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 266
• Fecha Publicación: 22/07/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés