W. B. Yeats: A Poetics of Ideology investigates the articulations
of ideology in Yeats from the beginning of his poetic career. The
book seeks to contextualize this ideology within what I call "the
modernist predicament." Yeats's articulation of politics can be
divided into three major phases. The first focuses on his
juvenilia, where politics is articulated in the pastoral trope at
the unconscious level of the text. The second is explicitly
expressed in Yeats's "imaginative nationalism." Here Ireland is
painted as a utopian land, an extension of his early pastoral
world. In such an idyllic depiction of the nation traumatic events
like the Great Hunger are glossed over. The third phase grounds
Yeats in the modernist predicament. Here the poet's consciousness
of the discrepancy between aesthetics and praxis, poetry and
modernity, is paramount to our understanding of the Yeatsian
crisis. The crisis articulates itself in Yeats's politicization of
space and claustrophilia. The book aims to trace the development
or, better still, radicalization of Yeats's political thought,
especially with regard to modernity and the Enlightenment.
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