'We Irish' in Europe - Yeats, Berkeley and Joseph Hone (Hardcover)

W.B. Yeats went to great lengths to design his self-image which biographers have been slow to challenge. Following on from "Blood Kindred" (2005), Mc Cormack's new study of the poet's idealist views concentrates on the role of J.M. Hone in introducing him to George Berkeley's philosophy in the mid 1920s and to contemporary Italian thinkers such as Giovanni Gentile and Mario Manlio Rossi. The notion of sacrifice is examined and, by way of contrast, work by Synge, George Moore and Samuel Beckett is shown to challenge the demand for sacrifice which underlies many powerful philosophies of culture. This is a detailed and yet wide-ranging critique of twentieth-century Irish literature, illuminating both well-known and obscure figures.

General

Imprint:	University College Dublin Press
Country of origin:	Ireland
Release date:	March 2010
First published:	October 2010
Authors:	W.J. McCormack
Dimensions:	234 x 160 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	220
ISBN-13:	978-1-906359-43-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
LSN:	1-906359-43-1
Barcode:	9781906359430

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