Mirrors and Lamps: Yeats’s Vision and the Logic of the Palimpsest

This study aims to provide a novel understanding of W. B. Yeats’s systematic view of reality and human experience, generally referred to as his Vision. De Man’s deconstructive reading of Yeats has demonstrated that this vision operates according to a particular mode of logic that differs radically f...

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