The Literary Universe of Jack B Yeats Author:Nora A. McGuinness Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957), younger brother of William Butler Yeats, is best known as a painter, but he was also an accomplished writer, primarily of fiction and drama. Nora A. McGuiness sets out to explore this other creative side of Jack B. Yeats and to establish his reputation beyond the realm of visual art. Using a thematic method of study, M... more »cGuiness examines the entire corpus of Yeat's written work, tracing his themes through both fiction and drama. She finds in Yeats' life and in- 20th century Irish history the background to his written work and traces the influences of nationalism and socialism on his aesthetics in order to shed light on the origin of his themes. Uncovering a consistent philosophy and a unified political and social point of view, McGuiness emphasizes Yeats' seriousness as a writer and places his work in the experimental Irish fiction and drama of the Modernist period. The first study to examine the literary art of Jack B. Yeats as a coherent body of work, this volume should be essential to all Irish studies scholars, literary critics, drama and theater historians, and art historians.« less