Yeats and Asia : Overviews and case studies /
"The association of Yeats with Asia suggests references to Byzantium, Theosophy, the influence of Mohini Chatterjee, Occultism, Rabindranath Tagore or the Upanishads, Nōh theatre, masks or his fugitive use of Zen koans, and the gyres as a version of Yin and Yang. Yeats made explicit references...
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Cork, Ireland :
Cork University Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions
- Introduction
- Part I: Yeats And Asia
- Yeats' Asias: Modernism, Orientalism, Anti-Orientalism
- Traces of Ancient Things: W.B. Yeats and Sato's Sword
- Theosophical Mediations in Yeats' Occult Encounters
- Rabindranath Tagore's Reception of W.B. Yeats
- The Hare-Dancer upon the Mountaintop: An Embodiment of Yeats' Mandala Metaphysics
- A Matter of Life and Death: Zen Buddhism and W.B. Yeats' Final Decade
- W.B. Yeats, Ernest Fenollosa and Lafcadio Hearn: Triptych or Bridge between Japan and the West
- The Ghost of Fenollosa in the Wings of the Abbey Theatre
- Fenollosa's Manuscript of Kikazu Zato: The Japanese Source of Yeats' The Cat and the Moon
- A Kyogen Version of Yeats' 'Kiogen': On Directing The Cat and the Moon in Japan
- Part II: Yeats On Asia
- Preamble
- South Asian Buddhism and Theosophy
- Japonisme and Cathay
- East Asian Art
- Nōh Theatre
- West Asia and 'Byzantium'
- Zen Buddhism
- Upanishads, Yoga and Tantra
- Trance, Dance, Blessedness and Joy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backcover.
