W. B. Yeats's 'A Vision' : Explications and Contexts (Clemson University Press w/ Lup)

Mann, Neil (EDT)/ Gibson, Matthew (EDT)/ Nally, Claire (EDT)

Clemson University Digital Press（2012/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 374 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780983533924

Full Description

'W. B. Yeats's "A Vision": Explications and Contexts' is the first volume of essays devoted to 'A Vision' and the associated system developed by W. B. Yeats and his wife, George. 'A Vision' is all-encompassing in its stated aims and scope, and it invites a wide range of approaches—as demonstrated in the essays collected here, written by the foremost scholars in the field.

The first six essays present explications of broader themes in 'A Vision' itself: the system's general principles; incarnate life and the Faculties; discarnate life and the Principles; how Yeats relates his own work to other philosophical approaches; and his consideration of the historical process. A further three essays include an examination of the elusive 'Thirteenth Cone', a consideration of astrological features in the automatic script, and a view of the poetry within 'A Vision'. The final five essays look at contextual themes, whether of collaboration and influence—between husband, wife, and spirits, or with another poet—or the gender perspective within these interrelations, the historical context of Golden-Dawn occultism or the broader political context of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s. Throughout, the different contributors take a variety of stances with regard to texts and the automatic script.

This is an important contribution to Yeats scholarship in general and a landmark in studies of 'A Vision'.

Contents

List of Figures and Diagrams
Preface
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Neil Mann • "Everywhere that antinomy of the One and the Many": The Foundations of A Vision
Rory Ryan • The Is and the Ought, the Knower and the Known: An Analysis of the Four Faculties in Yeats's System
Graham A. Dampier • "The Spiritual Intellect's Great Work": A Discussion of the Principles and A Vision's Account of Death
Charles Armstrong • Ancient Frames: Classical Philosophy in Yeats's A Vision
Matthew Gibson • "Timeless and Spaceless"?—Yeats's Search for Models of Interpretation in Post-Enlightenment Philosophy, Contemporary Anthropology and
Art History, and the Effects of These Theories on "The Completed Symbol," "The Soul in Judgment" and "The Great Year of the Ancients"
Matthew DeForrest • W. B. Yeats's A Vision: "Dove or Swan"
Neil Mann • The Thirteenth Cone
Colin McDowell • Shifting Sands: Dancing the Horoscope in the Vision Papers
Wayne K. Chapman • "Metaphors for Poetry": Concerning the Poems of A Vision and Certain Plays for Dancers
Catherine E. Paul • A Vision of Ezra Pound
Margaret Mills Harper • Refl ected Voices, Double Visions
Janis Haswell • Yeats's Vision and the Feminine
C. Nicholas Serra • Esotericism and Escape
Claire V. Nally • The Political Occult: Revisiting Fascism, Yeats and A Vision
Glossary
Index