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Woman possessed: W. b. yeats and the dramatic re-inscription of the irish woman.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Woman possessed: W. b. yeats and the dramatic re-inscription of the irish woman./
Author:	Mauk, Margaret S.
Description:	80 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 52-06.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International52-06(E).
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1555150
ISBN:	9781303869198

Woman possessed: W. b. yeats and the dramatic re-inscription of the irish woman.
Mauk, Margaret S.

Woman possessed: W. b. yeats and the dramatic re-inscription of the irish woman. - 80 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 52-06.

Thesis (M.A.)--College of Charleston, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Despite his strong relationships with intellectual, creative and politically savvy women (or perhaps to spite them), the women in Yeats' early plays are symbols of power--never possessors of power themselves. Yeats' early plays--works that become more overtly political as Yeats develops as an artist--act as a foil to the Virgin Mary and other domestic, middle-class representations of women in Ireland. Instead of embodying traditional domestic values, these women either seek out or are a part of the supernatural; they occupy various spaces within the liminal world--somewhere between the natural world and the mystical. They act as an alternative not for gender performance, but for political action. As such, they are not necessarily meant for women to emulate, but for men to embrace. In The Land of Heart's Desire, the leading female role, Mary, dies in her husband's tender arms; The Countess Cathleen also depicts the sentimental death of its female character as she is cradled by her lover; finally, Cathleen Ni Houlihan--Yeats' most famous play--portrays the seduction of a young Irish man by the mystical Cathleen to a deadly fate. Yeats's synthesis of the supernatural and the political within the feminine body creates a new (en)gendering of nationalism, but one that does not provide any more freedom for women than its traditional counterpart. His female characters edge closer to the supernatural with each play: Mary Bruin leaves her husband's home for a faery's promise, the Countess Cathleen transcends the natural world with her ultimate sacrifice, and Cathleen Ni Houlihan forces the supernatural world upon the peasant home. Yeats re-inscribes and circumscribes Irish women within a narrative that, once again, limits them to the symbolic as objects to be possessed by men.

ISBN: 9781303869198Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.

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