This dissertation presents a method for reading William Butler Yeats's A Vision. Establishing parallels between the language of A Vision and that of Jung's Psychological Types both renders A Vision comprehensible at the sentence level and identifies the classical theory of temperaments as a crucial unacknowledged influence on both Yeats and Jung. A reading of Book I of A Vision demonstrates how its cycle of lunar phases functions as a sophisticated psychological typology and reveals the underlying structure of Yeats's system.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:RICE/oai:scholarship.rice.edu:1911/16961 |
| Date | January 1996 |
| Creators | Schneider, Stephen Patrick |
| Contributors | Doody, Terrence |
| Source Sets | Rice University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Text |
| Format | 243 p., application/pdf |
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