ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2003.20.5
The Decentering Cultural Topography of English Poetry (3) Yeats: The Cultural Politics of Tragedy and Authority [1] - The Antinomies and Oppositions between the Absolute Power of Death and the Individuality
Abstract
Yeats’s conception and experience of tragedy are connected with what MichelFoucault calls “the absolute power of death”. Yeats thinks that if the modern poetcould enact the poetic authority, he should be able to embody the ancient forms ofpower. Hence his ideology of tragedy and authority which leads him to enact theoral tradition of ancient magical arts. Yeats thinks that, through the poetic mode ofancient magical arts, modern lyric poet can enact the absolute power of death,breaking the comedic power of modern individualism. Yeats's ideology of tragedyand authority, however, is in constant contradiction with “the life-administeringpower” of modern world. In spite of his desire to enact the tragic power of ancientbard, the space of his later lyrics remains the complex site of ideological conflicts between the residual forms of traditional Anglo-Irish culture and the dominantcultural forms of modern individualism. (The second part of this essay will becontinued in the next issue)
영국시의 탈중심 문화지형 (3)*
예이츠: 비극과 권위의 문화정치 [1]**
― 죽음의 절대력과 개인성의 모순대립
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