W.B. Yeats and Indian Thought

A Man Engaged in that Endless Research into Life, Death, God
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4438-8086-2
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 265 Seiten

This book presents an in-depth study of the influence of Indian philosophical and religious thought on W.B. Yeats’s poetic and dramatic work. It traces the development of this influence and inspiration from Yeats’s early impressionistic work to the mature and elaborate incorporation of Indian ideas into the structure, themes and symbolism of his writing. It recognizes the importance of his Indian friendships—with Mohini Chatterji, and particularly Rabindranath Tagore and Purohit Swami—Indian essays, and shows the limits of his Indianness.
While providing a comprehensive analysis of Yeats’s poetry and his bizarre poetic play, The Herne’s Egg, from an Eastern perspective, the book examines how Indian philosophical concepts guided Yeats in constructing his characters, imagery, and symbology, and in shaping the structure of his dramatic narrative. Yeats’s liminal positioning between Orientalism and Celticism, Irish nationalism and British imperialism, and his syncretistic literary aspirations and modernist poetic idiom are probed and explored in order to position him on a pendulum of postcolonial debate. The focus in this book is on the aesthetic appreciation of the parts of Yeats’s creative opus where he engaged with Eastern thought, with genuine interest and enthusiasm, when the pendulum swings towards Yeats being a mythopoetic and anticolonial writer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dabic, Snezana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Irische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Über Autor(innen)

Snezana Dabic is an independent scholar, residing in Melbourne, Australia. Her work ranges from education, publishing, translating and academic research to organising professional development conferences for teachers. As a language and communications educator, she has taught English, critical literacy and cross-cultural communication to many migrant professionals, as well as refugees and international students. Snežana is the author of various journal articles dealing with language and literature, in addition to several literary translations published in both English and Serbian, including a co-translation of Patrick White, the first Australian Nobel laureate for literature. Her research interests focus on sociolinguistics, language teaching and learning, discourse analysis, and literary studies, topics on which she has presented at various international conferences. Snežana has written about Yeats’s dramatic verse from the interface of systemic functional linguistics and Indian philosophy, identity formation and multiliteracies in language learning, and pronunciation teaching.