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ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.5 pp.121-141
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.1995.5.121

Yeats's Cultural Nationalism

Kyungwon Ahn

Abstract

Ireland, under British colonial rule, had radically developedindependence movement since the middle of the 19th century andhad gone through confusion and turmoils. Irish conflict wascaused by the racial, religious and class struggle, which dividedthe people into each different ideological party. Irish predicamenthad begun with the union with England, and in the colonialsituation Ireland had to go through the transitonal stage intomodernity. From the late 19th century to the middle of the 20thcentury Yeats's poetic career evolved and Ireland was in need ofmaking its own subjectivity under the double difficulty caused bythe colonial and transitional circumstances.
Yeats's poems were written in the troubled context. When heis considered as a nationalist poet, historical context has beentaken as a reflective background. But considering that Yeats'spoems recontextualize history, which is the source of his poetry,his poems must be interpreted in the historical context.
The nationalist movement which Yeats pursued both in poetryand politics can be identified as a cultural discourse. The ideologyof Yeats's cultural nationalism represents the Irish historicalcontext and functions as revealing Irish problems.
In this essay, I try to examine Yeats's cultural nationalism asa cultural discourse with the applicaton of new historicist andcultural materialist methods which intend the recovery ofhistoricity and the resisting function of discourse.
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Yeats의 문화 민족주의

안경원
연세대

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