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RECIPROCAL RITUAL: THE FUNCTION OF WOMEN IN THE IMAGINATION OF W. B. YEATS. (IRELAND)

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1973
Summary:
W. B. Yeats conceived a progression of Masks which he placed upon women he knew and presented as images in his poetry. Between the mystical Rose and Dancer images of his early and late work occur three Masks of flesh and- blood women--the Muse-goddess, the Duchess of Urbino, and the Audacious Old Woman. In relation to each of these, Yeats assumes a Mask of his own--the Poet-lover, the Courtier, several Old Men--and establishes a ritual relationship by which he dramatizes the opposing tensions he believed to exist between men and women . These tensions lie in oppositions of will, intellect, and creative genius. Yeats's ideal--ultimately unrealized--was to achieve complement, co-creation, and, finally, perfect union in the male-female relationship.
Title: RECIPROCAL RITUAL: THE FUNCTION OF WOMEN IN THE IMAGINATION OF W. B. YEATS. (IRELAND).
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Name(s): KLINE, GLORIA CORNELIA.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Pearce, Howard D., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1973
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 94 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: W. B. Yeats conceived a progression of Masks which he placed upon women he knew and presented as images in his poetry. Between the mystical Rose and Dancer images of his early and late work occur three Masks of flesh and- blood women--the Muse-goddess, the Duchess of Urbino, and the Audacious Old Woman. In relation to each of these, Yeats assumes a Mask of his own--the Poet-lover, the Courtier, several Old Men--and establishes a ritual relationship by which he dramatizes the opposing tensions he believed to exist between men and women . These tensions lie in oppositions of will, intellect, and creative genius. Yeats's ideal--ultimately unrealized--was to achieve complement, co-creation, and, finally, perfect union in the male-female relationship.
Identifier: 13553 (digitool), FADT13553 (IID), fau:10396 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1973.
Subject(s): Yeats, W B--(William Butler),--1865-1939--Criticism and interpretation
Women in literature
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