Words alone : Yeats and his inheritance / / R.F. Foster

• Autore: Foster R. F (Robert Fitzroy), <1949->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 236 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 821.8
• Soggetto topico: English literature - Irish authors - History and criticism; English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); English literature - Irish influences
• Soggetto geografico: Ireland Civilization 19th century
• Classificazione: HL 4945
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-219) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: National tales and national futures in Ireland and Scotland after 1800 -- The first Romantics : young Irelands between Catholic emancipation and the famine -- Lost in the big house : Anglo-Irishry and the uses of the supernatural -- Oisin comes home : Yeats as inheritor.
• Sommario/riassunto: W. B. Yeats is usually seen as a great innovator who put his stamp so decisively on modern Irish literature that most of his successors worked in his shadow. R. F. Foster's eloquent and authoritative book weaves together literature and history to present an alternative perspective. By returning to the rich seed-bed of nineteenth-century Irish writing, Words Alone charts some of the influences, including romantic 'national tales' in post-Union Ireland, the poetry and polemicof the Young Ireland movement, the occult and supernatural novels of Sheridan LeFanu, William Carleton's 'peasant fictions', and fairy-lore and folktale collectors that created the unique and powerful Yeatsian voice of the decade from 1885 to 1895. As well as placing these literary movements in a vividcontemporary context of politics, polemic and social tension, Foster discusses recent critical and interpretive approaches to these phenomena. He shows that the use Yeats made of his predecessors during his apprenticeship, and the part that a self-conscious use of Irish literary tradition played in the construction of his path-breaking early work as he attempted to 'hammer his thoughts into a unity' made him an inheritor as much as an inventor.
• Titolo autorizzato: Words alone
• ISBN: 0-19-161967-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823320503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II