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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version : |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Matthew Schultz, (Professor of English) |
ISBN: | 9781526111197 1526111195 9781526111180 1526111187 1781707227 9781781707227 |
OCLC Number: | 1100901903 |
Language Note: | In English. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Haunted historiographies: The rhetoric of ideology in postcolonial Irish fiction; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Introduction:Textual spectrality and Finnegans Wake; Part I: Famine; 1. The persistence of Famine in postcolonial Ireland; 2. The specter of Famine during World War II; Part II: Revolution; 3. Ancient warriors, modernsexualities: Easter 1916 and the advent of post-Catholic Ireland; 4. Gothic inheritance and the Troubles in contemporary Irish fiction; Conclusion: Famine and the Western Front in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot |
Responsibility: | Matthew Schultz. |
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'This is a generally well-informed study that makes ingenious use of the spectral in relation to a range of diverse texts.'Emer Nolan, Maynooth University, James Joyce Quarterly, Volume 52, Number 1, Fall 2014'Although it is very much a monograph (single author, single idea) rather than a survey or text book, there is a likelihood that the focus on a range of well-known texts will recommend it to teachers and learners from the IrishStudies community around the world.'Gerry Smyth, Liverpool John Moores University, The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies Vol. 39, No. 1 -- . Read more...

