UID:
almahu_9949870078102882
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 467 pages, 24 pages of plates ) :
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illustrations, plates
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
1-4744-9968-6
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1-4744-9967-8
Series Statement:
Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities Series
Content:
"W. B. Yeats was not only a poet but also a cultural revolutionary. A restless collaborator, he fostered countless artistic enterprises, from the Abbey Theatre to the Cuala Press, and pursued various inter-artistic media and forums for his work. From childhood co-creations with his siblings to the arresting combination of sound and movement in his final play, The Death of Cuchulain, his work also repeatedly addresses and incorporates music, dance, and the visual, material and theatrical arts with remarkable intensity. For him, literature was a vital thing that engaged, in one form or another, all the senses. This volume's newly commissioned chapters analyse afresh such engagements. Bringing together scholars of literature, aesthetics, cultural history and specialists in drama, music, dance and the visual arts, they provide a broad range of historical, conceptual, and disciplinary approaches and perspectives"--Back cover.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of Illustrations --
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Acknowledgements --
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Introduction --
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Part I Contexts and Concepts --
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1. Yeats, William Morris and the Aesthetics of the Everyday --
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2. Yeats and The Savoy: French Decadence and Irish Poetry --
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3. The Institutionalisation of Art in Dublin: Yeats, Sociability and Transnationalism --
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4. The Virtual Archive of Anima Mundi --
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5. On the Scale of Art and the Aesthetics of Difficulty: Rereading 'Lapis Lazuli' as Ecological Critique --
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6. Knowing Ruskin's Cat: Yeats and the Proper Names of the Aesthetic --
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7. Cuchulain the Cowboy: A Tale of Yeats and the Wild West --
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Part II Visual and Material Culture --
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8. Yeats, Blake and the Romanticism of the Arts and Crafts Movement --
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9. Yeats and Edwardian Languages of Art --
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10. The Wild Swans at Coole (1917, 1919), Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) and the Limits of Portraiture --
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11. A 'cacophony of sardine tins': Yeats and Modern Art --
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12. Yeats, Byzantine Art and Celtic Occultism --
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13. A Swedish Bounty: Yeats, Public Art and European Nationalisms in the Free State --
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14. Preservation and Proportion in 'The Municipal Gallery Revisited' --
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15. Late Yeats, Print and Symbolic Book Design: The Case of Responsibilities --
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16. Illustrating the 1935 and 1937 Cuala Press Broadsides --
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17. Poetry, Painting and Posterity: Yeats as Example and Burden --
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Part III Performance and Sound --
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18. The 'World That Sang and Listened': Yeats and Florence Farr's 'New Art' of Verse Speaking --
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19. 'Music had driven their wits astray': Raftery, Nietzsche and the Applied Arts --
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20. Yeats and Wagner: The Countess Cathleen and Other Plays --
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21. 'We must have a new kind of scenic art': Yeats's Set Design and Stagecraft --
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22. Yeats, Gender-Bending and the Art of Transvestism --
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23. The Dramaturgy of Movement: Choreographic Writing in The Dreaming of the Bones --
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24. Choreographic Collaborations: Yeats and Ninette de Valois --
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25. 'Lose my words in patterns of sound': Music in the Dance Plays for Ninette de Valois --
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26. Yeats's Common Measure: The Later Ballads --
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Notes on Contributors --
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4744-9966-X
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 147449966X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474499668
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781474499675
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