“What secret torture?”: Normativity, “Homoeros” and the Will to Escape in Yeats’s “The Land of Heart’s Desire” and Edward Martyn’s “The Heather Field”
This paper offers a dramaturgical and comparative analysis of W.B. Yeats’s The Land of Heart’s Desire (1889) and Edward Martyn’s The Heather Field (1899) in light of their representation of the tension between the queer and the normative. I focus on characters who feel different and the unease of th...
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Firenze University Press
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Studi Irlandesi : a Journal of Irish Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-sijis/article/view/11750 |