States of Desire by Vicki Mahaffey
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.
many engaging and insightful formulations,.. a very suggestive and scholarly reading of Joyce's posthumously published notebook, Giacomo Joyce * Ronan McDonald, *
Vicki Mahaffey is Kirkpatrick Professor of English and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780195115925 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195115929 |
| Title | States of Desire |
| Author | Vicki Mahaffey |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 1999-01-07 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |