Ebook: States of desire : Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish experiment
- Tags: English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism. Yeats W. B. -- (William Butler) -- 1865-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation. Wilde Oscar -- 1854-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation. Joyce James -- 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation. English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Year: 1998
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: New York, Ireland, Ireland
- Language: English
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Mahaffey's fascinating study shows how the writings of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce are politically subversive in the most local and dangerous sense of the term: they aim to take apart the assumptions and verbal practices that make dominance possible. Each writer developed an experimental style out of the struggle with his national heritage, but each also had to come to terms with passionate ideals of his own that for a Read more...
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This study shows how the writings of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce are politically subversive in the most local and dangerous sense of the term: they aim to take apart the assumptions and verbal practices Read more...
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