States of Desire Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experiment

Vicki Mahaffey

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780195115925
Publisher:	OUP USA
Imprint:	Oxford University Press
Pub date:	07 Jan 1999
DEWEY:	820.9941509041
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	276
Weight:	590g
Height:	236mm
Width:	157mm
Spine width:	28mm