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Yeats and English Conference 2021 (FULL WEEKEND ONLINE TICKET)

Yeats and English Conference 2021

£25.00

Description

***FULL WEEKEND ONLINE TICKET***

Friday 10 December 2021, 9.00am to 12 December

This ticket enables you to attend the full conference online, via Zoom. Joining details will be circulated closer to the event.

There are also student tickets and tickets to attend the event in person, at York Medical Society, available on the website.

All attendees will receive Zoom joining details closer to the event date.

 

Detailed Description

Plenary speakers:

  • Peter McDonald, Christ Church, Oxford
  • Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid, University of Sheffield

 

This symposium will enable participants to address a variety of topics suggested by the conference theme. Themes include:

 

  • Yeats and the English poets
  • Yeats and British regional modernism
  • Literary London: Shaw, Wilde, Yeats, Eliot, Pound
  • The influence of Yeats on modern and contemporary poetry
  • The end of Empires
  • Yeats’s politics and the inflexions of nationalism
  • Yeats and British policy in Ireland
  • Contemporary literary theory and the challenge nationalisms
  • Identity and poetry
  • Poetry and international theatre: polyglot form, monoglot writing

Please note that all attendees will receive Zoom joining details closer to the event date.