The poor bugger's tool
Subtitle: Irish modernism, queer labor, and postcolonial history
By: Patrick R. Mullen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780199746699
Subjects: English literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Value in literature; History and criticism; Queer theory; Homosexuality in literature; Values in literature; Modernism (Literature); Homosexuality and literature; Nationalism and literature; Irish authors; History
Other titles: Irish modernism, queer labor, and postcolonial history
Description: viii, 213 p. : 25 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Oscar Wilde and the greatest mystery of modern literature - solved!; title: J. M. Synge and the aesthetics of intelligent sympathy; title: Roger Casement's global English : from human rights to the homoerotic; title: Ruling passion : James Joyce, Roger Casement and the poor bugger's tool; title: The queer labors of Patrick McCabe and Neil Jordan : novel, television, cinema; title: "Sinn Feiners, me arse. I'm a socialist, never doubt about it" : Jamie O'Neill's At swim, two boys and the queer project of socialism.