num_pages: 168
description: "A nation's literary myths may shed more light on the complexities underlying its politics than can a straightforward historical recounting of past events. Nowhere is this more true than in Ireland, where the lethal archetype of Ireland as seductive mother and lover survives as one aspect of the political violence that continues to afflict the country today."
language: English
title: Terrible Beauty: Yeats, Joyce, Ireland, and the Myth of the Devouring Female
titlecomplete: Terrible Beauty: Yeats, Joyce, Ireland, and the Myth of the Devouring Female
publisher: Univ of Missouri Pr