Introduction
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Matthew Schultz
Abstract
A reconsideration of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (1939) that forecasts Jacques Derrida’s notion of spectrality as a viable theoretical lens for the Twenty-First Century, even as the spectral figure aids our reinterpretation of Joyce’s text. For Joyce’s corpus, central to Irish literary tradition, celebrates this impurity and offers us insight into contemporary postcolonial novelists’ motivations for and methods of reinvention.
Abstract
A reconsideration of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (1939) that forecasts Jacques Derrida’s notion of spectrality as a viable theoretical lens for the Twenty-First Century, even as the spectral figure aids our reinterpretation of Joyce’s text. For Joyce’s corpus, central to Irish literary tradition, celebrates this impurity and offers us insight into contemporary postcolonial novelists’ motivations for and methods of reinvention.
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- Dedication vi
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction 1
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Part I Famine
- 1 The persistence of Famine in postcolonial Ireland 23
- 2 The specter of Famine during World War II 67
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Part II Revolution
- 3 Ancient warriors, modernsexualities 97
- 4 Gothic inheritance and the Troubles in contemporary Irish fiction 129
- Conclusion 164
- Bibliography 183
- Index 200
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- Dedication vi
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction 1
-
Part I Famine
- 1 The persistence of Famine in postcolonial Ireland 23
- 2 The specter of Famine during World War II 67
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Part II Revolution
- 3 Ancient warriors, modernsexualities 97
- 4 Gothic inheritance and the Troubles in contemporary Irish fiction 129
- Conclusion 164
- Bibliography 183
- Index 200
