Four Dubliners

Four Dubliners
Author: Richard Ellmann
Publisher: George Braziller
Total Pages: 122
Release: 1988
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780807612088

Examines the lives and careers of four distinguished Irish authors and analyzes the connections among them.

Yeats and Joyce

Yeats and Joyce
Author: Alistair Cormack
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 135187070X

While postcolonial studies has contributed much to our understanding of Irish modernism, it has also encouraged less-than-accurate portrayals of Joyce and Yeats as polar opposites: Yeats as the inventor of Irish mystique and Joyce as its relentless demythologiser. Alistair Cormack's complex study provides a corrective to these misleading characterisations by analysing the tools Yeats and Joyce themselves used to challenge representation in the postcolonial era. Despite their very different histories, Cormack suggests, these two writers can be seen as allies in their insistence on the heresy of the imagination. Reinvigorating and politicising the history of ideas as a powerful medium for studying literature, he shows that Joyce and Yeats independently challenged a linearity and materialism they identified with empire. Both celebrated Ireland as destabilising the accepted forms of thought and the accepted means of narrating the nation. Thus, 'unreadable' modernist works such as Finnegans Wake and A Vision must be understood as attempts to reconceptualise history in a literally postcolonial period.

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
Author: Colm Tóibín
Publisher: Picador Australia
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2018-10-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1760783595

'A father...is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses William Butler Yeats' father was an impoverished artist, an inveterate letter writer, and a man crippled by his inability to ever finish a painting. Oscar Wilde's father was a doctor, a brilliant statistician and amateur archaeologist who was taken to court by an obsessed lover in a strange foreshadowing of events that would later befall his son. The father of James Joyce was a garrulous, hard-drinking man with a violent temper, unable or unwilling to provide for his large family, who eventually drove his son from Ireland. In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, Colm Tóibín presents an illuminating, intimate study of Irish culture, history and literature told through the lives and works of Ireland's most famous sons, and the complicated, influential relationships they each maintained with their fathers. 'A supple, subtle thinker, alive to hunts and undertones, wary of absolute truths.' New Statesman 'Tóibín writes about writers' families...with great subtlety and sometimes with splendid impudence.' Sunday Telegraph

Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats

Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats
Author: T. Balinisteanu
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2012-11-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137291583

How can we use art to reconstruct ourselves and the material world? Is every individual an art object? Is the material world an art text? This book answers these questions by examining modernist literature, especially James Joyce and W.B. Yeats, in the context of anarchist intellectual thought and Georges Sorel's theory of social myth.

Irish Identity and the Literary Revival

Irish Identity and the Literary Revival
Author: George Watson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2023-02-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000884775

First published in 1979, Irish Identity and the Literary Revival, through the works of W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, J. M. Synge, and Sean O’Casey, documents the complex spectrum of political, social and other pressures that helped fashion modern Ireland. At least three sets of cultural assumptions coexisted in Ireland during the years between 1890 and 1930, -- English, Irish and Anglo-Irish, each united by a common language but divided by considerable tensions and strain. The question of Irish identity forms the central theme of the study, and illustrates how it was a major, even obsessive concern for these writers. Subsidiary and interwoven themes constantly recur. Themes such as the concepts of the peasant and the hero, political nationalism, the meaning of Ireland’s history and the validity of her cultural traditions. Rather than use the literature concerned as merely endorsing evidence for a sociological or political thesis, this study allows its major themes and issues to emerge and develop from direct and close study of the work of the writers. This book will be of interest to students of literature and history.

Modernism and Mass Politics

Modernism and Mass Politics
Author:
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1995-12
Genre:
ISBN: 0804764697

Examining in detail the surprising similarities between modernist literature and contemporary theories of the crowd, this work shows that many modernist literary forms emerged out of efforts to write in the idiom of the crowd mind.

The Identity Of Yeats

The Identity Of Yeats
Author: Richard Ellmann
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2016-01-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786258315

This classic study of Yeats’ verse examines the poet’s development of theme, symbol, style, and pattern. Through his knowledge of Yeats’ life as well as his published and unpublished work, Ellmann recreates Yeats’ ways of thinking, seeing, and writing and clarifies his difficult poems.

Yeats in Love

Yeats in Love
Author: Annie West
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2014
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781848403925

Annie West's irreverent art brings to life W.B. Yeats's futile pursuit of the beautiful, unobtainable Maud Gonne. Introduced by Theo Dorgan, and complete with poetry by Yeats as well as quotes by those who bore witness to his infatuation, including Katharine Tynan, Douglas Hyde and his own sisters, Lolly and Lily, Yeats in Love is a truly original depiction of a decades-long adolescent crush.

Yeats Is Dead

Yeats Is Dead
Author: Joseph O'Connor
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2010-03-08
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1407091603

Yeats is Dead begins with Roddy Doyle and ends with Frank McCourt. In between, thirteen other Irish writers spin an increasingly elaborate tale of murder, mayhem and literary shenanigans in present-day Dublin.