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1 Online-Ressource (294 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783031607844
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3031607848
Inhalt:
This book explores Yeatss later poetry through the metaphor of the poetic tower, where different kinds of building architectural, textual, political and symbolic were closely interrelated. It chronologically examines Yeatss tower poems, composed during a period of dramatic personal and national transformation, from 1915 to 1932. Within a year after the Easter Rising in Dublin, Yeats acquired a half-ruined Norman tower in County Galway, Ireland, which had enthralled him for the past two decades, and textually and architecturally constructed it into a focus of his life and work. Interweaving the account of the renovation of the actual building and the textual construction in the socio-historical contexts, the book reveals the evolution of Yeatss multiplex tower as an organizing principle of his later poetry. Using the archive of correspondence and manuscript materials of relevant poems, including those which have thus far escaped close attention, the book offers close textual-genetic analyses and a diachronic view of Yeatss tower poetry, which, with its foundations laid decades earlier, he built in the collections from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) to The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933). Highlighting the delicate exchange between poetry and biography as well as between the textual architecture and the actual one, identifying a turning point in the making of each tower-oriented poem and proposing some draft-dating revisions, this first book-length systematic study on the process of Yeatss creation of the tower casts an unfamiliar light on a familiar yet underexplored landmark in modern poetry and makes his step-by-step construction work come alive. Tomoko Iwatsubo is Professor at Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan. She has published a number of articles on W. B. Yeats
Anmerkung:
'The Black Tower': A Phantasmal Image
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Yeats's Tower Project -- A Diachronic View -- 'Cold and Passionate as the Dawn' -- 'The Old Square Castle, Ballylee' -- 'Begin Building Again' -- Thoor Ballylee -- References -- Chapter 2: Anticipatory Construction in The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) -- 'Ballylee, Co. Galway, / September 1918' -- 'Ego Dominus Tuus': The First Dialogue Under the Tower -- 'The Wild Swans at Coole': Breaking New Ground -- '1916' -- A Mysterious Prelude to the Tower Project
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'A Prayer on going into my House': The First Poem for His Own House -- 'In Memory of Major Robert Gregory': A Tower-warming Elegy -- 'The Phases of the Moon': The Second Dialogue Under the Tower -- References -- Chapter 3: Restoring the Tower at Ballylee in Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) -- 'A Prayer for My Daughter': The Tower by 'the Flooded Stream' -- Two-stage Composition -- Building a Fortress -- 'To be Carved on a Stone at Ballylee': Meta-Inscription in Time of War -- Two-stage Composition -- The Inscription Poem in Context -- References
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Chapter 4: Building Thoor Ballylee: 'Meditations in Time of Civil War', The Tower (1928) -- On the Threshold of a New Stage -- The Making of the First Tower Sequence: 'Meditations in Time of Civil War' -- The Sequence of Seven Sections -- I. 'Ancestral Houses': 'Some Marvellous Empty Sea-shell' -- II. 'My House': 'Emblems of Adversity' -- III. 'My Table': 'An Aching Heart', the 'Soul's Unchanging Look' and 'A Changeless Work of Art' -- IV. 'My Descendants': An Elegy for his father and Thoor Ballylee -- V. 'The Road at My Door': Writing in the Explosion
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VI. 'The Stare's Nest by My Window': A Prayer for Rebuilding -- VII. 'I see Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart's Fullness and of the Coming Emptiness': Visions on the Top of the Tower -- References -- Chapter 5: Building a Symbol 'at the Foundation of a Nation': 'The Tower', The Tower (1928) -- Towards the Second Tower Sequence -- The Making of 'The Tower' -- The Sequence of Three Parts -- I: Towering Rage against Old Age -- II: Mythology Rooted in Ballylee -- III: A Testament 'as Cold / And Passionate as the Dawn' -- The Tower of Soul-making -- References
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Chapter 6: Winding Up and Farewell: The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) and After -- The Final Phases of the Tower Project -- 'Blood and the Moon': The Last Tower Poem Written at Ballylee -- Two-stage Composition -- Emblematizing the Tower -- 'A Dialogue of Self and Soul': The Third Dialogue and Departure -- The Writing of a Post-Tower Poem -- A Turning Point: Re-planning Life and Work -- The Self's New Path -- 'Coole and Ballylee, 1931': An Elegy and Epilogue -- The Final Composition at Coole -- Coole and Ballylee -- After The Winding Stair and Other Poems
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783031607837
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Iwatsubo, Tomoko Building W. B. Yeats's Later Poetry Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2024 ISBN 9783031607837
Sprache:
Englisch
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