Yeats and Joyce

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. Alistair Cormack''s complex study provides a corrective to these misleading characterisations by analysing the tools Yeats and Joyce th...