Imagistic action: an interdisciplinary study of poetic tension in Yeats' theatre.

by Wong Hing Yi.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 131-137).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Introduction --- p.1Chapter Chapter One --- "“The Last Romantic or the First Modern?"": in the light of the predecessors and contemporaries" --- p.7Chapter Chapter Two --- "“More than Cool Reason"": a study of the poetic metaphor in Yeats's poems" --- p.29Chapter Chapter Three --- """An illusion that should not be quite an illusion"": a study of the visual image in Yeats´ةs plays" --- p.51Chapter Chapter Four --- Image as Action: Yeats as the forerunner of the modern theatre --- p.80Conclusion --- p.112Illustrations --- p.119References --- p.13