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States of desire : Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish experiment
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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 practice...
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.
Details
- Creator
- Vicki Mahaffey
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023
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- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (295 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780197592236, 0197592236, 9781280529603, 1280529601, 9780195353884, 0195353889, 9781429404488, 1429404485, 0195115929
- OCLC
- ocn476012348, ocn466427902, on1410955231
- Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Reading and ""Irish"" Desire; 2. Wilde's Desire: A Study in Green; 3. ""Horrible Splendour of Desire"": The Will of W.B.Yeats; 4. Joyful Desire: Giacomo Joyce and Finnegans Wake; 5. Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Subjects
- English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- National characteristics, Irish, in literature.
- Ireland -- In literature.
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.