This book is a collection of six essays on William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). The hermenutic model here adopted renounces the traditional search for monolithically antinomic matrices in Yeats’s texts and, instead, chooses the interpretive perspective of the “complimentary dream”, borrowing – in its (incorrect) original spelling – the expression coined by the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature to comment upon a passage from Henri Bergson’s "L'évolution créatrice". The first three chapters of this book apply that interpretive perspective directly to three institutional dimensions of the Irish writer’s thought and work (i.e. the “philosophy” of literary genres; his conception of the literary text; two Yeatsian metaphorizations of “writing”). Its remaining three chapters, instead, apply it indirectly to some other paradigmatic and strategic dynamics of his creative experience, such as the textual infiltrations generated by the relationships between literature and music and the textual traces of Yeats’s contacts with Italy and Italian culture.
Questo volume propone una raccolta di saggi su William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Il modello ermeneutico adottato rinuncia alla tradizionale ricerca di monolitiche matrici antinomiche nei testi yeatsiani e sceglie invece la prospettiva del "complimentary dream", mutuando nella sua (scorretta) grafia originale l'espressione coniata dal Premio Nobel per la Letteratura 1923 come glossa a un passo da "L'évolution créatrice" di Henri Bergson. Nei sei capitoli tale modello è applicato per via diretta a tre dimensioni istituzionali del pensiero e dell'opera dello scrittore irlandese ("philosophy" del genere letterario; concezione di testo letterario; metaforizzazioni della scrittura), nonché per via indiretta ad altre dinamiche paradigmatiche e rilevanti della sua esperienza creativa, quali le infiltrazioni prodotte dalle relazioni tra letteratura e musica e gli esiti determinati dal rapporto con l'Italia e la cultura italiana.
Reggiani, E., The compl[i]mentary dream, perhaps. Saggi su William Butler Yeats, Aracne, Roma 2010:<<Studi di Anglistica>>, 187 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/20154]
The compl[i]mentary dream, perhaps. Saggi su William Butler Yeats
Reggiani, Enrico
2010
Abstract
This book is a collection of six essays on William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). The hermenutic model here adopted renounces the traditional search for monolithically antinomic matrices in Yeats’s texts and, instead, chooses the interpretive perspective of the “complimentary dream”, borrowing – in its (incorrect) original spelling – the expression coined by the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature to comment upon a passage from Henri Bergson’s "L'évolution créatrice". The first three chapters of this book apply that interpretive perspective directly to three institutional dimensions of the Irish writer’s thought and work (i.e. the “philosophy” of literary genres; his conception of the literary text; two Yeatsian metaphorizations of “writing”). Its remaining three chapters, instead, apply it indirectly to some other paradigmatic and strategic dynamics of his creative experience, such as the textual infiltrations generated by the relationships between literature and music and the textual traces of Yeats’s contacts with Italy and Italian culture.
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