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Book SynopsisThe forty-two chapters in this book consider Yeats''s early toil, his practical and esoteric concerns as his career developed, his friends and enemies, and how he was and is understood. This Handbook brings together critics and writers who have considered what Yeats wrote and how he wrote, moving between texts and their contexts in ways that will lead the reader through Yeats''s multiple selves as poet, playwright, public figure, and mystic. It assembles a variety of views and adds to a sense of dialogue, the antinomian or deliberately-divided way of thinking that Yeats relished and encouraged. This volume puts that sense of a living dialogue in tune both with the history of criticism on Yeats and also with contemporary critical and ethical debates, not shirking the complexities of Yeats''s more uncomfortable political positions or personal life. It provides one basis from which future Yeats scholarship can continue to participate in the fascination of all the contributors here in the satisfying difficulty of this great writer.
Table of ContentsPreface Part 1. Such Friends: Predecessors and Collaborators 1: Claire Lynch: Self-Making 2: Seán Hewitt: Fairy and Folk Tales of Bedford Park 3: Peter McDonald: 'Never to leave that valley': Sligo 4: Francis O'Gorman: Among the Victorians 5: Nicholas Grene: Lady Gregory: Patronage, Collaboration, Mythopoeia 6: Joseph Hassett: John Quinn and the Literary Marketplace 7: Margaret Mills Harper: George Yeats 8: Nicholas Allen: The Writings of Jack Yeats Part 2. In and Through History 9: Geraldine Parsons: Ancient Ireland 10: R.F. Foster: The Ghost of Parnell 11: Edna Longley: Renaissance Italy: 'courtly images' 12: Hugh Haughton: Tradition and Phantasmagoria: Dante and Shakespeare 13: Geraldine Higgins: Talking back to history: From 'September 1913' to 'Easter, 1916' 14: Fran Brearton: 'Knights of the Air': Flight and Modernity 15: David Dwan: Revolution and Counter-Revolution 16: Lauren Arrington: Fascist Italy 17: Alan Gillis: The Thirties: 'The day brings round the night' 18: Adam Hanna: The Senate and the Stage 19: Adam Piette: 'Cast a cold eye': Death in Wartime Part 3. From the Global to the Interplanetary 20: Justin Quinn: Tagore, Pound and World English 21: Nathan Suhr-Sytsma: Africa 22: Jahan Ramazani: Asias 23: Katherine Ebury: 'The Scientific Revolution' 24: Cóilín Parsons: Planets 25: Neil Mann: Visionary Poetics Part 4. Genres and Medias 26: Charles Armstrong: Romanticism and Aestheticism 27: Claire Nally: Rites and Rhymes 28: Tom Walker: The most characteristic poet of modern Europe': Modernist Accommodations 29: Jack Quin: Illustrating 30: Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux: Family Business at Dun Emer and Cuala: Collaboration, Contention, and Creativity 31: Emilie Morin: In the Media Part 5. Playing Yeats 32: Susan Cannon Harris: Yeats's Early Plays: Gender, Genre, and Queer Collaboration 33: Akiko Manabe: 'A Country Over Wave': Japan, Noh, Kiogen 34: Zsuzsanna Balázs: Reading the Late Plays: Sexual Unorthodoxies 35: Patrick Lonergan: Playing in Ireland 36: Susan Jones: Dance Part 6. Reading Yeats 37: Stephanie Burt: Imperfect Forms 38: Matthew Campbell: Visionary Comedy 39: Lucy McDiarmid: Masculinities 40: Wayne K. Chapman: Late Style: Art v. Life 41: Warwick Gould: Editing Postscript 42: Vona Groarke: Yeats and Contemporary Poetry: Twelve Speculative Takes
