Abstract
William Butler Yeats gathered many travel books of different kinds and worth in his library. These books witness his interest both in the real experience of travel and in the infinite actualizations of its symbolic value, which he materialized in his poetic texts at various textual levels and according to diverse cultural perspectives. This essay intends to show how Yeats applied the symbolic value of travel (with its synonyms) and its anthropological and epistemological implications to his own country, to the “philosophy” and practice of the poetic text, and, more generally, to the idea of adopting “the living world for text”.
| Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] "The Living World for Text". The textual journey in WB Yeats |
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| Lingua originale | Italian |
| Titolo della pubblicazione ospite | English Travellers and Travelling |
| Pagine | 107-140 |
| Numero di pagine | 34 |
| Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2002 |
| Evento | English Travellers & Travelling. Giornata di Studio - Milano Durata: 16 mag 2001 → 16 mag 2001 |
Seminario
| Seminario | English Travellers & Travelling. Giornata di Studio |
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| Città | Milano |
| Periodo | 16/5/01 → 16/5/01 |
Keywords
- Travel books in Yeats’s library
- Yeats’s country as travel
- Yeats’s text as travel
- Yeats’s “living world for text”