Fortgeschrittenenseminar Ireland Nationalism Poetry W.B Yeats

This work-intensive seminar invites engagement with a threshold writer of the modern era, obsessed with millenarian symbols and apocalyptic scenarios. Poet and playwright, visionary and reluctant politician, W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) lived through a period of radical transition and violent upheaval in the history of Ireland and beyond. To this day, his work defines for many people the claim of cultural identity forged in the Irish independence struggle and tried in the turmoil of the Civil War. But for Yeats and his associates, the literary creation of an Irish nation in fact demanded a rejection of their cultural background, so that they used the -Celtic Revival” of the 1890s in order to invent a new Ireland with the help of English literature. This may suggest why all his writing is often self-consciously contradictory: how can it reconcile the English language with the desired sense of Irishness? How do, in general terms, poetics and aesthetics relate to such political demands? And if, as a famous poem argues, -Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone”, what sort of other Ireland comes instead? Participants must come prepared (there will be a READING TEST in the first session!). The seminar is based on the following book The Yeats Reader: A Portable Companion of Poetry, Drama and Prose, ed. Richard J. Finneran (New York: Scribner, 2002); in addition everyone must buy an edition of Yeats' Collected Poems (the selection in The Yeats Reader is too small) and familiarize themselves thoroughly with these texts; critical material will be provided in a reader. The Yeats Reader: A Portable Companion of Poetry, Drama and Prose, ed. Richard J. Finneran (New York: Scribner, 2002). In addition all participants must buy an edition of Yeats' Collected Poems (the selection in The Yeats Reader is too small). Anmeldung Prüfungsanmeldung (über LSF): 22. Juni - 3. Juli 2015 Downloads DateinameBeschreibunggültig vongültig bis 04_Said_Culture and Imperialism_Yeats and Decolonization.pdf 06. 05. Said 01.04.2015 30.09.2015 05_Kiberd_Inventing Ireland.pdf 13. 05. Kiberd 01.04.2015 30.09.2015 06_Anderson_Imagined Communities.pdf 20. 05. Anderson 01.04.2015 30.09.2015 07_Butler Cullingford_Yeats and Gender.pdf 27. 05. Butler Cullingford 01.04.2015 30.09.2015 09_Huck_Paradox der Mytho-Poetik.pdf 10. 06. Huck 01.04.2015 30.09.2015 Armstrong_Reframing Yeats_Shakespeare Sonnets and Sonnetic Monstrosities.pdf Armstrong -- additional text 01.04.2015 30.09.2015 Bradley_Romantic Ireland.pdf Bradley -- additional text 01.04.2015 30.09.2015 Holdeman_Levitas Eds_Yeats in Context.pdf Holdeman/Levitas -- additional text 01.04.2015 30.09.2015 Zum Download müssen Sie angemeldet sein! keine öffentliche Person LMU München SoSe 2015 Prof.Dr. Döring Tobias