Important nonsense: Yeats and symbolism

This essay shows how the practice of symbolism needs to be interpreted within a broader intellectual history. The metaphysical content of this history might encourage us to abandon it, but it provides the conditions of intelligibility, nonetheless, for key literary concepts–at least if one assumes t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dwan, D
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2019