Yeats and Joyce: Cyclical History and the Reprobate Tradition

by Alistair Cormack (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $98.29

  While postcolonial studies has contributed much to our understanding of Irish modernism, it has also encouraged less-than-accurate portrayals of Joyce and Yeats as polar opposites: Yeats as the inventor of Irish mystique and Joyce as its relentless demythologiser. This study provides a corrective to these misleading characterisations.