The nature of the beast: Yeats and the shadow
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| Field | Value | |
| Title | The nature of the beast: Yeats and the shadow | |
| Creator | Meihuizen, N. | |
| Description | Yeats’s ‘rough beast’ in “The Second Coming" emerges not only 'out of Spiritus Mundi, but out of an era that was especially attracted to various encodings of the unconscious, a trope, so to speak, made famous by Freud and Jung. I argue that certain psychological discourses are inherent in an era sceptical of foundationalism, that Yeats's poem is a manifestation of the machinery of this scepticism, and that, ultimately, aspects of the poem foreshadow Postmodernist interrogations of received ‘truth’. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 1994-05-02 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/lit.v15i2.670 | |
| Source | Literator; Vol 15, No 2 (1994); 183-193 Literator; Vol 15, No 2 (1994); 183-193 2219-8237 0258-2279 | |
| Language | eng | |
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