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States of desire : Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish experiment

By Wilde , Vicki , Oscar; Joyce , James; Yeats , Yeats William Butler; Mahaffey

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
9781280529603, 1280529601, 9781429404488, 1429404485
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (22130398 bytes)
Pages
276\295
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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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 time impeded or denied the versatility of his writing. Read more... Abstract: 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 that make dominance possible. Read more...

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