Yeats and Revisionism: A Half Century of the Dancer and the Dance

Daniel  O'Hara

The books collects Daniel T. O'Hara's half century of essays and review-essays on Yeats and his major poetry an drama and how leading critics and theorists have sought to revise their reception for their periods of time and indeed for the future. Its aim is to trace a critical history of the last fifty years, even as it opens the prospects for the future of critical reading of Yeats and modern poetry.

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Frontmatter
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Dedication
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Preface
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Introduction: Dancer and Dance: Yeats’s Romantic Modernism and Critical Revisionism
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Chapter 1 - The Irony of Tradition in W.B. Yeats’s Autobiography: Dialectical Hermeneutics Beyond the New Criticism
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Chapter 2 - The Specialty of Self-Victimization: On Antithetical Revisionism
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Chapter 3 - Yeats in Theory: Blackmur, Bloom, De Man and Hartman
pp 57-76
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Chapter 4 - The Divisions of Yeats Studies Continued
pp 77-86
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Chapter 5 - Modernism’s Global Identity: on the Dogmatic Imagination in Yeats, Freud and Beyond
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Chapter 6 - Yeats With Lacan: Toward the Real Modernism
pp 105-114
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Chapter 7 - The Spirit Medium: Yeats, Quantum Visions and Recent Lacanian Studies
pp 115-134
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Chapter 8 - And All the Ceremonies to Come: Of High Modernism, Visionary Violence and Post-Marxism
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Afterword: The Reader in Yeats
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Bibliography
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Index
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A Half Century of the Dancer and the Dance

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

Acknowledgments
pp viii-viii

Preface
pp ix-xii

Introduction: Dancer and Dance: Yeats’s Romantic Modernism and Critical Revisionism
pp 1-18

Chapter 1 - The Irony of Tradition in W.B. Yeats’s Autobiography: Dialectical Hermeneutics Beyond the New Criticism
pp 19-50

Chapter 2 - The Specialty of Self-Victimization: On Antithetical Revisionism
pp 51-56

Chapter 3 - Yeats in Theory: Blackmur, Bloom, De Man and Hartman
pp 57-76

Chapter 4 - The Divisions of Yeats Studies Continued
pp 77-86

Chapter 5 - Modernism’s Global Identity: on the Dogmatic Imagination in Yeats, Freud and Beyond
pp 87-104

Chapter 6 - Yeats With Lacan: Toward the Real Modernism
pp 105-114

Chapter 7 - The Spirit Medium: Yeats, Quantum Visions and Recent Lacanian Studies
pp 115-134

Chapter 8 - And All the Ceremonies to Come: Of High Modernism, Visionary Violence and Post-Marxism
pp 135-152

Afterword: The Reader in Yeats
pp 153-154

Bibliography
pp 155-160

Index
pp 161-164

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