Ireland, under British colonial rule, had radically developed independence movement since the middle of the 19th century and had gone through confusion and turmoils. Irish conflict was caused by the racial, religious and class struggle, which divided the people into each different ideological party. Irish predicament had begun with the union with England, and in the colonial situation Ireland had to go through the transitonal stage into modernity. From the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th century Yeats's poetic career evolved and Ireland was in need of making its own subjectivity under the double difficulty caused by the colonial and transitional circumstances. Yeats's poems were written in the troubled context. When he is considered as a nationalist poet, historical context has been taken as a reflective background. But considering that Yeats's poems recontextualize history, which is the source of his poetry, his poems must be interpreted in the historical context. The nationalist movement which Yeats pursued both in poetry and politics can be identified as a cultural discourse. The ideology of Yeats's cultural nationalism represents the Irish historical context and functions as revealing Irish problems. In this essay, I try to examine Yeats's cultural nationalism as a cultural discourse with the applicaton of new historicist and cultural materialist methods which intend the recovery of historicity and the resisting function of discourse.
예이츠 및 관련 분야에 대한 회원들의 학문 발전을 도모하고 연구 의욕을 고취시키기 위해 다음과 같은 일을 기획하고 수행함을 그 목적으로 한다.
1) 학술 발표회 및 세미나 개최
2) 학술 정보의 수집과 자료 교환
3) 연구논문집 『한국예이츠저널』(The Yeats Journal of Korea) 발간
4) 회원 상호간의 학문적 교류와 친목 도모