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States of desire : Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish experiment / Vicki Mahaffey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mahaffey, Vicki, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939--Criticism and interpretation.
- Yeats, W. B.
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900--Criticism and interpretation.
- Wilde, Oscar.
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.
- Joyce, James.
- English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- National characteristics, Irish, in literature.
- Ireland--In literature.
- Ireland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (295 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-759223-6
- 1-280-52960-1
- 0-19-535388-9
- 1-4294-0448-5
- OCLC:
- 476012348
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