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Yeats's Nations: Gender, Class, and Irishness - Couverture souple

Howes, Marjorie

 
9780521645270: Yeats's Nations: Gender, Class, and Irishness
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521645271 ISBN 13 : 9780521645270
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Yeats, it has been claimed, invented a country and called it Ireland. In his plays, poetry and prose, the Anglo-Irish aristocrat and the rural Gaelic peasant combine to form a new community founded on custom and ceremony. Marjorie Howes's 1996 study attempts to examine Yeats's continuous search for political origins and cultural traditions through theoretical work on literature, gender and nationalism in post-colonial cultures. She explores the complex, often contradictory, ways Yeats's politics are refracted through his writing and shows how his enthusiastic advocacy of the concept of nationality often clashed with his distaste for the dominant, often exclusive, forms of Irish identity surrounding him. For every public proclamation on national destiny, there is an intensely private scrutiny of his own sexual identity. Howes places Yeats at the centre of debates on nationalism and gender that currently occupy critics in post-colonial studies. Her study will be of interest to all interested in Irish studies, postcolonial theory, and the relationship between nationalism and sexuality.

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Revue de presse

'This book is much more than an important re-reading of Yeats. Marjorie Howes has so intelligently addressed the nexus of relationships between nationality, gender and class that she has effected a rereading of modern Irish writing in general. We have here an exemplary instance of the mutually enriching engagement between theoretical inquiry and the close reading of literary texts.' Seamus Deane

'When a critical text can ... show me something new, complex, and interesting about the writer, give me a new understanding of the ways in which both his positive and negative qualities work together, I'm delighted. Marjorie Howes's new book, Yeats's Nations: Gender, Class, and Irishness, does just that, showing me this eccentric relation in a new light.' Mary Donnelly, James Joyce Literary Supplement

'A 'revised' Yeats is the constant and fascinating focus of this study.' Shaun Richards, Bullán

'Provides a much needed reappraisal of the connection between nationality and gender, and illustrates it with fascinating reference to Yeats's life, work, and his relationship with Ireland's turbulent history.' Julia Cook, Manuscript

Présentation de l'éditeur

Yeats, it has been claimed, invented a country and called it Ireland. In his plays, poetry and prose, the Anglo-Irish aristocrat and the rural Gaelic peasant combine to form a new community founded on custom and ceremony. Marjorie Howes's 1996 study attempts to examine Yeats's continuous search for political origins and cultural traditions through theoretical work on literature, gender and nationalism in post-colonial cultures. She explores the complex, often contradictory, ways Yeats's politics are refracted through his writing and shows how his enthusiastic advocacy of the concept of nationality often clashed with his distaste for the dominant, often exclusive, forms of Irish identity surrounding him. For every public proclamation on national destiny, there is an intensely private scrutiny of his own sexual identity. Howes places Yeats at the centre of debates on nationalism and gender that currently occupy critics in post-colonial studies. Her study will be of interest to all interested in Irish studies, postcolonial theory, and the relationship between nationalism and sexuality.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521645271
ISBN 13 
9780521645270
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
252
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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