hig.sePublications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • harvard-cite-them-right
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • sv-SE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • de-DE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
A Conceptual-historicist Investigation of Poems by William Butler Yeats
University of Gävle, Faculty of Education and Business Studies, Department of Humanities.
2017 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

This essay aims to find a correlation between the poetry of William Butler Yeats and the social-cultural context of its time-period. With the aid of conceptual history, representations of fundamental concepts can be revealed in the written text. The methodological approach is based on Reinhart Koselleck's Begriffsgeschichte where concepts are used for timing history. The two concepts in focus in the essay are 'crisis' and 'the Golden Age'. The results found in the analysis of Yeats' poems displayed to a high amount the representation of the concept of 'crisis', revealing that crisis in the society at that time is reflected in Yeats' poems, but representations of the counter-concept 'the Golden Age' was only partly found in poems from his later collections. A suggestion for further research is to perform a study where several contemporary poets are investigated simultaneously with the aid of conceptual history.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2017. , p. 27
Keywords [en]
Yeats, Conceptual history, Koselleck, Irish poetry, Mythology
National Category
General Literature Studies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-23633OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hig-23633DiVA, id: diva2:1074674
Subject / course
English
Educational program
Upper Secondary Teacher Education Programme
Supervisors
Examiners
Available from: 2017-02-17 Created: 2017-02-15 Last updated: 2017-02-17Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(216 kB)4394 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 216 kBChecksum SHA-512
38655dfed875239b1d3a51109f3b432c634cc20a2bb6c05868aea75d51dad6aeae856e0f2d2725ceea50639f5bb924c622818a71056b286b7dc2c843ac3b0477
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

By organisation
Department of Humanities
General Literature Studies

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 4395 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

urn-nbn

Altmetric score

urn-nbn
Total: 685 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • harvard-cite-them-right
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • sv-SE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • de-DE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf