1st Edition
Progress & Identity in the Plays of W.B. Yeats, 1892-1907
By Barbara A. Suess
Copyright 2003
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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Progress and Identity in the Poems of W. B. Yeats explores the ways in which Yeats's plays offer an alternative form of progress via a philosophical system of opposites: Always seeking the opposite, the nature of which changes as we change, we continually augment our personalities, and ultimately improve society, with the inclusion of the Other. This system, which eventually became Yeats's... Read more
Chapter 1 “[F]ull of personified averages”; Chapter 2 Literatures of Progress; Chapter 3 Progress as Material Gain; Chapter 4 Recovering the Feminized Other; Chapter 5 “[N]ice little playwrights, making pretty little plays”;
Biography
Barbara A. Suess
