W. B. Yeats and Folklore: The Search for an Irish Identity
0
조회
0
다운로드
1
인용
0
참고문헌
키워드
초록
This paper explores Yeats’s use of folklore in the 1880s and 1890s. I think that Yeats uses folklore to cast himself as Irish, so that he, as a Protestant, middle class urbanite, could take part in the nationalist movement. It is also an attempt to forge his Irish identity by showing that the traditional folklore of the Irish peasantry was the inheritance of a universal primitive religion, and that folklore and the occult pointed to the same source. By claiming that the peasant was imbued with the same esoteric, ancient mysticism that he himself had adopted, Yeats drew a link between himself and the peasantry, thus giving himself access to Irishness. His self-imposed role as the artist who revitalizes culture gives him the power to make this link between himself and the peasantry through emphasizing certain aspects of their folktales that appear to show the influence of primitive religion.
Abstract
This paper explores Yeats’s use of folklore in the 1880s and 1890s. I think that Yeats uses folklore to cast himself as Irish, so that he, as a Protestant, middle class urbanite, could take part in the nationalist movement. It is also an attempt to forge his Irish identity by showing that the traditional folklore of the Irish peasantry was the inheritance of a universal primitive religion, and that folklore and the occult pointed to the same source. By claiming that the peasant was imbued with the same esoteric, ancient mysticism that he himself had adopted, Yeats drew a link between himself and the peasantry, thus giving himself access to Irishness. His self-imposed role as the artist who revitalizes culture gives him the power to make this link between himself and the peasantry through emphasizing certain aspects of their folktales that appear to show the influence of primitive religion.
참고문헌 (32)
- Bradley, Anthony, "Imagining Ireland in the Poems and Plays of W. B. Yeats:Nation, Class, and State" (2011), Palgrave Macmillan
- Castle, Gregory, "Modernism and the Celtic Revival" (2001), Cambridge UP
- Eliot, T. S, "After Strange Gods" (1933), Faber and Faber Limited
- Foster, R. F., "W. B. Yeats: A Life. 1, The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914" (1997), Oxford UP
- Fitzpatrick, David, "The Gardener and the Stable-Boy: Yeats, MacNeice, and the Problem of Orangeism", The Review of English Studies, 64(263), pp.127~144 (2012)
- Hirsch, Edward, "“And I Myself Created Hanrahan.” Yeats, Folklore, and Fiction", ELH, 48(4), pp.880~893 (1981)
- Hirsch, Edward, "Coming out into the Light: W. B. Yeats’s “The Celtic Twilight” (1893, 1902)", Journal of the Folklore Institute, 18(1), pp.1~22 (1981)
- Hirsch, Edward, "The Genres of the Irish Literary Revival", pp.11~25 (1979), Pilgrim
- Hutchinson, John, "The Dynamics of Cultural Nationalism: The Gaelic Revival and the Creation of the Irish Nation State" (1987), Allen & Unwin
- Johnston, Elva, "Literacy and Identity in Early Medieval Ireland" (2013), The Boydell Press
- Kelly, John, "The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats: Volume I 1865-1895" (1986), Clarendon Press
- Khalifa, Rached, "W. B. Yeats and Postcolonialism", pp.277~299 (2001), Locust Hill
- Kiberd, Declan, "Inventing Ireland" (1996), Harvard UP
- Kiberd, Declan, "Irish Classics" (2001), Harvard UP
- Kinahan, Frank, "Armchair Folklore: Yeats and the Textual Sources of “Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry.”", Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, 83C, pp.255~267 (1983)
- MacNeice, Louis, "The Poetry of W. B. Yeats" (1979), Greenwood Publishers
- Marcus, Phillip L, "Yeats and the Beginning of the Irish Renaissance" (1970), Cornell UP
- Mattar, Sinéad Garrigan, "Primitivism, Science, and the Irish Revival" (2004), Clarendon
- Skene, Reg, "The Cuchulain Plays of W. B. Yeats: A Study" (1974), Columbia UP
- Watson, George J, "Irish Identity and the Literary Revival: Synge, Yeats, Joyce and O’Casey" (1979), Croom Helm
- Yeats, W. B., "Essays and Introductions", pp.509~526 (1961), Collier Books
- Yeats, W. B., "Letters to the New Island", pp.27~30 (1989), Macmillan
- Yeats, W. B, "Essays and Introductions", pp.203~210 (1961), Collier Books
- Yeats, W. B, "Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats", pp.130~137 (1970), Columbia UP
- Yeats, W. B., "Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats", pp.138~141 (1970), Columbia UP
- Yeats, W. B., "Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats", pp.173~175 (1970), Columbia UP
- Yeats, W. B, "The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats: Consisting of Reveries over Childhood and Youth, the Trembling of the Veil and Dramatis Personae" (1953), The MacMillan Company
- Yeats, W. B, "Essays and Introductions", pp.173~188 (1961), Collier Books
- Yeats, W. B., "The Celtic Twilight" (2004), Dover Publications
- Yeats, W. B, "Letters to the New Island", pp.53~56 (1989), Macmillan
- Yeats, W. B., "Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats", pp.254~256 (1970), Columbia UP
- Yeats, W. B., "Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats", pp.283~288 (1970), Columbia UP