Yeats and the art of ancestral recall : twilight, modernity, and Irish-Japanese interculturality

This dissertation examines the processes through which the works of W. B. Yeats, as representative of Irish folklore generally, became absorbed into Japanese modernism. The Celtic Twilight, as one example, had enormous appeal to Japanese literary figures, including Akutagawa Ryûnosuke, Yanagita Ku...

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Main Author: Somers, Seán Gary Adam
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5623