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Yeats and the Logic of Formalism (Hardcover)
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Yeats and the Logic of Formalism deals with formalism as a
philosophy in Yeats's works and how that in turn affects both his
art and his politics. Vereen M. Bell's understanding of
""formalism"" and ""philosophy"" stems from a meditation by Yeats
in a manuscript note: ""Sometimes I doubt life's values behind my
own thought. They should have been there before the stream began,
before it became necessary for the work to create them."" In Bell's
reading, formalism is not simply a philosophy of art but a
philosophy of life as directed by art - an existential one at its
source. While Bell understands that formalism is not a
paradigm-shifting topic in today's theoretical debates, he does
attempt to reconsider the concept's credibility in the context of
other competing theoretical discourses. Bell invokes and elaborates
upon Edward Said's reading of Yeats as a special kind of colonial
subject. He revisits the issue of how much Yeats and Nietzsche have
in common and tries to show, in the manner of J Hillis Miller, that
the primordial is for Yeats what formalism ultimately sets itself
against. ""Yeats and the Logic of Formalism"" mediates between
older, more traditional readings of Yeats's work and recent
theoretical, often antagonistic readings in an effort to restore a
balanced perspective. The author centers most of his discussion on
the poetry itself to provide a total reading of Yeats's work. Early
in his career Yeats wrote: ""Hope and Memory have one daughter and
her name is Art."" Coded in the word Hope here - considering the
cultural and historical circumstances under which Yeats worked - is
what Bell believes is the meaning, existentially, of Yeats's
career.
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