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States of Desire - Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experiment (Paperback)
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States of Desire - Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experiment (Paperback)
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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. Irish writers, she
argues, sought to disrupt the rigidity of political thinking and
social control by turning language into a weapon; by opening up
infinite new possibilities of meaning and association, linguistic
play makes it impossible for thought to be monopolized by the state
or any other institutional power. In this light, the text becomes a
prism of political, cultural, and erotic desires: a fountain of
conscious and unconscious linguistic suggestion. Defying semantic
control and refuting societal repression, Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce
literally fought, in their lives and in their work, for a freedom
of expression which-as was painfully evidenced in the case of
Wilde-was not to be had for the asking.
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