- Paperback: 242 pages
- Publisher: State University of New York Press (4 Jan 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0791428427
- ISBN-13: 978-0791428429
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 14.9 x 1.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,273,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book traces the development of alchemical discourse in the work of W. B. Yeats. His early essays and Golden Dawn transcripts demonstrate that for the poet, the alchemist was both artist and initiate. Gorski considers the themes of transformation, apocalypse, and futurity in relation to Yeats' alchemical representations of the 1890s. He uncovers Yeats' postmodern trajectory-to reconstitute the body, history, and material contingency which Yeats' original Symbolist aesthetic sought to transcend for "a world made wholly of essences". Yeats and Alchemy bridges the resistant discourses of hermeticism and poststructuralism in alchemy's reclaiming of the culturally discarded value, in its theorizing of construction and deconstruction, and in its siting of the Other within the subject. Discussions of previously unpublished Yeats journals theorize on the Body's place and potential in spiritual transformation. Gorski also highlights the role Yeats assigned to alchemy in marriage and in his turbulent partnership with Maud Gonne.
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William Gorski is Professor at George Mason University.
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Yeats found in alchemy a pliable discourse that could represent the range of relationships between spirit and matter, whether separated or merged, harmonious or divisive. He also saw in alchemy a multifaceted metaphor for transformation, as it applied to both art and the human psyche. Alchemy was the poetic precursor to modern chemistry, a compensatory undercurrent to Christianity, an archetypal dream, and the science of spiritual transformation.
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a "MUST READ" for Yeats fans!
13 April 2000
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Dr. Gorski is a great writer and professor of literature! I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about Yeats or broadening their own literary horizons.
Does this mean bonus points for me? *grin*
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