Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Shame and Modern Writing -- 2 Montaigne's Writing: "Honteux Insolent"? -- 3 Shamefulness and Modernity: Remarks on Shakespeare's Sonnet 129 -- 4 Lyric S…
Arguing for a reconsideration of William Butler Yeats's work in the light of contemporary studies of world literature, Barry Sheils shows how reading Yeats enables a fuller understanding of the relationship between the extensive map of world literary production and the intensiti…
1. Yeatsian transmissions : from Kiltartan to the sky -- 2. Folklore and the new world of text -- 3. Put into English : the monoglot translator and world literature -- 4. 'Woman' and the poetics of destitution -- 5. Fanatic subjectivity in the modern state.
Arguing for a reconsideration of William Butler Yeats’s work in the light of contemporary studies of world literature, Barry Sheils shows how reading Yeats enables a fuller understanding of the relationship between the extensive map of world literary production and the inte…
Arguing for a reconsideration of William Butler Yeats's work in the light of contemporary studies of world literature, Barry Sheils shows how reading Yeats enables a fuller understanding of the relationship between the extensive map of world literary production and the intensiti…
Arguing for a reconsideration of William Butler Yeats's work in light of contemporary studies of world literature, Barry Sheils makes a strong case for reading Yeats's work in the context of a broad comprehension of its global modernity. He shows how Yeats enables a fuller under…