Description
The intellectual and cultural impact of British and Irish writers cannot be assessed without reference to their reception in European countries. These essays, prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, record the ways in which W. B. Yeats has been translated, evaluated and emulated in different national and linguistic areas of continental Europe. There is a remarkable split between the often politicized reception in Eastern European countries but also Spain on the one hand, and the more sober scholarly response in Western Europe on the other. Yeats's Irishness and the pre-eminence of his lyrical work have posed continuous challenges. Three further essays describe the widely divergent reactions to Yeats in his native Ireland, during his lifetime and up to the most recent years.
Series Editor: Dr Elinor Shaffer FBA, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Contributors:
Rodica Albu, 'Al. I. Cuza' University of Iasi, Romania
Nicholas Allen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jonathan Allison, University of Kentucky
Csilla Bertha, University of Debrecen, Hungary
Carle Bonafous-Murat, University of Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris III
Eamonn R. Cantwell
Theo D'haen, K.U. Leuven (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium)
Jolanta Dudek, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland
Fiorenzo Fantaccini, University of Florence
Ljiljana Ina Gjurgjan, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Jacqueline A. Hurtley, University of Barcelona, Spain
Klaus Peter Jochum, University of Bamberg, Germany
Roger Keys, University of St. Andrews
Table of Contents
Series Editor's Preface - Elinor Shaffer
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Timeline: European Reception of W. B. Yeats - Klaus Peter Jochum
Introduction: The Yeatsian Reception of Europe and the European Reception of Yeats; Klaus Peter Jochum
1. Yeats in the Dutch-language Low Countries; Theo D'haen
2. The Reception of W. B. Yeats in France; Carle Bonafous-Murat
3. Yeats in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; Klaus Peter Jochum
4. Lands of Desire: Yeats in Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque Country, 1920-1935; Jacqueline A. Hurtley
5. The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Italy; Fiorenzo Fantaccini 6. The Reception of Yeats's Works in Poland (1898-2004); Jolanta Dudek
7. The Reception of the Work of W. B. Yeats in Russia and Countries of the Former USSR; Roger Keys
8. 'The Hungarian of the West': Yeats's Reception in Hungary; Csilla Bertha
9. The Reception of Yeats in Croatia; Ljiljana Ina Gjurgjan
10. The Reception of Yeats in Romania; Rodica Albu
11. Yeats's Early Irish Reception, 1882-1917; Eamonn Cantwell and Klaus Peter Jochum
12. The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Ireland, 1918-50; Nicholas Allen and Eamonn Cantwell
13. The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Ireland since 1950; Jonathan Allison
14. Epilogue: Yeats from Iceland to Turkey; Klaus Peter Jochum
Bibliography
Index
Author(s)
Klaus Peter Jochum, Klaus Peter Jochum is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Bamberg.
Reviews
"...an erudite and analytical work....re-asserts Yeats's unique but secure place as a prominent European voice." - Elisabeth Muller, Études Irlandaises
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mention - Margaret Russett, Studies In English Literature 1500-1900, Vol. 47, No. 4,
“This valuable addition to the Athlone Critical Traditions Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe reveals more clearly than ever how continental Europe has reciprocated Yeats’s ambivalence toward it...the chapters are comprehensive and lucid while offering few critical judgments, which make them wonderful sources of information…Scholars working on Yeats and translation will find the volume essential." - Russell McDonald, Comparative Literature Studies, 2008
Russell McDonald,
"…this volume is surely a valuable research tool for Yeatsian scholars (not least because of its useful timeline and bibliographies)."
Modern Language Review 104:4 (Oct 2009)
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"Useful, fact-filled book ... For experts and nonexperts alike [these essays] offer concise, accurate, highly informative summaries." David Holdeman, Modern Philology, 2010.
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