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Becoming A Creatrix: Women’S Religious Roles In W. B. Yeats And Olivia Shakespear, Elaine Kathyryn Childs
Becoming A Creatrix: Women’S Religious Roles In W. B. Yeats And Olivia Shakespear, Elaine Kathyryn Childs
Doctoral Dissertations
This project is the biography of a symbol: that of the holy woman motif in William Butler Yeats’s oeuvre. For most of Yeats’s writing life, beautiful women have a place of spurious privilege in his spiritual imagination because they have an intrinsic connection with the divine otherworld. In chapters on Yeats’s beauty-worship in his long fin de siecle, Olivia Shakespear’s critique of that beauty-worship in her fiction, and the role of A Vision in The Winding Stair and Other Poems, I argue that Yeats revised the holy woman motif from a limited and limiting goddess or helpmeet role in …