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The “Supernatural Artist” and the Tarot Fool: Transnational Esotericism in W.B. Yeats’s On Baile’s Strand
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This article re-evaluates William Butler Yeats’s On Baile’s Strand as a site of transnational exchange. By focusing on the play’s occult symbolism – specifically characters and images drawn from tarot cards – the article argues that Yeats proffers transnationalism and utopianism in place of militant nationalism. Furthermore, his use of palimpsestic imagery creates a queer, deferred, and affective aesthetic that refuses tight definitional boundaries and imagines a potential role for the occult in transnationalism and decolonization.
Title: The “Supernatural Artist” and the Tarot Fool: Transnational Esotericism in W.B. Yeats’s On Baile’s Strand
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This article re-evaluates William Butler Yeats’s On Baile’s Strand as a site of transnational exchange.
By focusing on the play’s occult symbolism – specifically characters and images drawn from tarot cards – the article argues that Yeats proffers transnationalism and utopianism in place of militant nationalism.
Furthermore, his use of palimpsestic imagery creates a queer, deferred, and affective aesthetic that refuses tight definitional boundaries and imagines a potential role for the occult in transnationalism and decolonization.
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