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Charles Ivan Armstrong is Professor of British Literature, University of Agder, Norway.[<i>Reframing Yeats</i> is] an intellectually nuanced, theoretically contextualized study of Yeats’s multifaceted engagements with literary genres and previous authors ... both illuminating and highly accomplished.
- Nels Pearson, Fairfield University, Review of English Studies
[<i>Reframing Yeats</i>] avoids the monolithic works that tend to prop up other critical books on Yeats ... Armstrong is good on the topic of vox populi, Yeats’s complex engagement with his reading and spectating public, arguing that ‘Despite being fascinated by the fixity and quasi-autonomous power of the written word, Yeats had little time for those who saw poetry as something created autonomously out of the subjectivity of the poet’.
The Year's Work in English Studies
Reframing Yeats, the first critical study of its kind, uses a focus on genre and allusion to engage with a broad range of W. B. Yeats’s writings, examining instances of his poetry, autobiographical writings, criticism, and drama.
Identifying a schism in recent Yeatsian criticism between biographical and formalist methodologies, Armstrong’s study combines an historicist perspective with close attention to literary form. The result is a flexible approach that casts new light on how Yeats’s texts interact with their interpretative frameworks.
Cognizant of both literary and political history, this book presents new interpretations of Yeats’s work. Not only does it provide fresh readings of texts such as “The Municipal Gallery Re-visited,” “Among School Children” and "The Resurrection", but it also raises important new questions concerning Yeats’s relationship to Modernism and literary genre.
Historicizing Modernism challenges traditional literary interpretations by taking an empirical approach to modernist writing: a direct response to new documentary sources made available over the last decade.
Informed by archival research, and working beyond the usual European/American avant-garde 1900-1945 parameters the series reassesses established images of modernist writers by developing fresh views of intellectual backgrounds and working methods.
Series Editors: Matthew Feldman and Erik Tonning
Associate Editor: Natasha Periyan, Lecturer in Literature, King’s College London, UK
Editorial Board:
Professor Chris Ackerley, Department of English, University of Otago, New Zealand;
Professor Ron Bush, St. John’s College, University of Oxford, UK;
Dr Finn Fordham, Department of English, Royal Holloway, UK;
Professor Steven Matthews, Department of English, University of Reading, UK;
Dr Mark Nixon, Department of English, University of Reading, UK;
Professor Janet Wilson, University of Northampton, UK;
Santanu Das, University of Oxford, UK;
Nan Zhang, The University of Hong Kong;
Kevin Andrew Riordan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore