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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b10667211.
- catalog coverage "Ireland In literature.".
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-260) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Reading and "Irish" Desire -- Reading as "Habit" -- Starting Again: Experimental Reading and Desiring -- Verbal Experimentation in Ireland -- Iconoclasm as De-siring -- A Micropolitics of Experiment -- Fretting Nationalism and Masculinity -- Beyond Radicalism -- Oedipal Desire -- Territorializing and Deterritorializing Desire -- Wilde's Desire: A Study in Green -- A Scary Wildman, or Nothing Wilde? -- Flowers of Green: Ireland, Crime, and Youth -- Mature Individualism -- De Profundis: Taming Wilde -- Pere-version and Im-mere-sion: Parental Corruption -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the Prohibition of Desire -- Wilde Im-mere-sions of Desire -- "Horrible Splendour of Desire": The Will of W.B. Yeats -- Hanrahan's Passion: Hunt as Flight -- "It Was the Dream Itself Enchanted Me" -- The Rose -- Celtic Rosicrucianism -- A Woman's Rose -- The Secret Rose -- The Wind Among the Reeds -- The Tower and The Winding Stair -- Joyful Desire: Giacomo Joyce and Finnegans Wake -- Joyce's War on Status -- Giacomo Joyce: Joyce and Wunderlich -- Fascism and Silence: The Coded History of Amalia Popper -- From Italy to Ireland: The Ambivalence of Men toward Men -- Female Desire and Power in Finnegans Wake -- Marriage as "Marrage" -- "Male and Female Unmask We Hem" -- Waking Desire.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xix, 276 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0195115929 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Ireland In literature.".
- catalog subject "820.9/9415/09041 21".
- catalog subject "English literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English literature Irish authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Joyce, James, 1882-1941 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, Irish, in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR8750 .M34 1998".
- catalog subject "Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Reading and "Irish" Desire -- Reading as "Habit" -- Starting Again: Experimental Reading and Desiring -- Verbal Experimentation in Ireland -- Iconoclasm as De-siring -- A Micropolitics of Experiment -- Fretting Nationalism and Masculinity -- Beyond Radicalism -- Oedipal Desire -- Territorializing and Deterritorializing Desire -- Wilde's Desire: A Study in Green -- A Scary Wildman, or Nothing Wilde? -- Flowers of Green: Ireland, Crime, and Youth -- Mature Individualism -- De Profundis: Taming Wilde -- Pere-version and Im-mere-sion: Parental Corruption -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the Prohibition of Desire -- Wilde Im-mere-sions of Desire -- "Horrible Splendour of Desire": The Will of W.B. Yeats -- Hanrahan's Passion: Hunt as Flight -- "It Was the Dream Itself Enchanted Me" -- The Rose -- Celtic Rosicrucianism -- A Woman's Rose -- The Secret Rose -- The Wind Among the Reeds -- The Tower and The Winding Stair -- Joyful Desire: Giacomo Joyce and Finnegans Wake -- Joyce's War on Status -- Giacomo Joyce: Joyce and Wunderlich -- Fascism and Silence: The Coded History of Amalia Popper -- From Italy to Ireland: The Ambivalence of Men toward Men -- Female Desire and Power in Finnegans Wake -- Marriage as "Marrage" -- "Male and Female Unmask We Hem" -- Waking Desire.".
- catalog title "States of desire : Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish experiment / Vicki Mahaffey.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".