Showing posts with label Oscar Wilde. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oscar Wilde. Show all posts

Monday, July 18, 2011

Off the Shelf #1 Inventing Ireland

Inventing Ireland is an absorbing book from Declan Kiberd. It's the go-to tome for first principles on Irish identity in a post-colonial frame. Very readable and broad in scope.

The chapter on Oscar Wilde (chapter two) is great. Even if it contains some ricketty academicky speke such as ... "So every dichotomy dichotomises". p40