Abstract

Yeats's postmodern rhetoric / Ronald Schleifer -- He "liked the way his finger smelt" : Yeats and the tropics of history / William Bonney -- Under Northern lights : re-visioning Yeats and the revival / Kieran Quinlan -- Textual/sexual politics in Yeats's "Leda and the swan" / William Johnsen -- The performativity of utterance in Deirdre and The player queen / Kathleen O'Gorman -- Poetic ritual and audience response : Yeats and the Nō / Steven Putzel -- The doll as icon : the semiotics of the subject in Yeats's poem "The dolls" / Kitti Carriker -- "The strange reward of all that discipline" : Yeats and Foucault / Cheryl Herr -- Yeats/Bakhtin/orality/dyslexia / R.B. Kershner.