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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36165232 Title: States of desire : Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish experiment Author: Vicki Mahaffey Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN/ISSN: 0195115929 9780195115925 9780190623982 0190623985 OCLC:36165232

  
  

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

Author:	Vicki Mahaffey
Publisher:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Edition/Format:	Print book  Computer File : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	This book is an intimate study of the three giants in Irish literary history: Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats, and James Joyce. In addition to constructing a narrative of Ireland's political and literary past, Vicki Mahaffey interweaves the lives and writing of the authors into a portrait of national imagination, shaped not only by a vast cultural and mythic heritage, but also by the hard fact of English political domination. States of Desire argues that what people desire is fundamentally connected to how they write and read. Not only do language and narrative shape desire (and vice versa), but because these processes are socially conditioned, some political circumstances, such as those present in Ireland at the turn of the century, foster experimental desire more successfully than others. Mahaffey's contribution to the critical discourse on literary modernism is to assign a political motive to the art of modernist wordplay; in doing so, she offers a more compelling and socially driven version of the oft-told tale of literary modernism.  Read more...
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Subjects	Yeats, W. B. -- (William Butler), -- 1865-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation. Wilde, Oscar, -- 1854-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation. Joyce, James, -- 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation. View all subjects
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