Zsuzsanna Balázs – The ‘Swiftness’ of Yeats: Italian Fascism, Elitism, and W. B. Yeats’s Swift-Myth

Over the last few months, my research interest has turned towards the examination of the influence of Italian Fascism and authoritarian politics on William Butler Yeats’s oeuvre. I usually discuss this topic with regard to Luigi Pirandello’s and Yeats’s theatre, but this time, I chose to explore this theme in Yeats’s reading of the eighteenth-century…

Balázs Zsuzsanna – Yeats and Pop Culture

So far, there have been only few attempts to film or stage Yeats’s work, and I find it very interesting that Yeats’s presence in pop culture has been, in fact, restricted to some catchy, well-known lines from his major poems in the titles and scenes of certain film productions and in book titles. However, it…

Balázs Zsuzsanna – Splitting the Self

Over the last few months, I’ve been trying to find evidence to prove that Yeats’s idea of the self and its anti-self (the mask or Daimon) bears strong relation to Pirandello’s interpretation of the distinction between the so called persona and personaggio, and this analogy is most evident in their dramas. When Yeats writes to Olivia Shakespear…

REP 2014 – Challenge Accepted

Meet the winners of the Ruttkay Essay Prize 2014! Please, click on the photos in order to read the interviews!  Kassai Zita Balázs Zsuzsanna More information about the contest itself: here!  Featured image by Krassó Timi