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States of desire : Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish experiment /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xix, 276 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-260) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1429404485 9781429404488 1280529601 9781280529603 9786610529605 6610529604 0195353889 9780195353884 |