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Haunted historiographies : the rhetoric of ideology in postcolonial Irish fiction /

The rhetoric of ideology haunts Irish fiction. Schultz maps these rhetorical hauntings across a wide range of postcolonial Irish novels, and defines the spectre as a non-present presence that simultaneously symbolizes and analyzes an overlapping of Irish myth and Irish history. By exploring this exc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schultz, Matthew (Professor of English) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction:Textual spectrality and Finnegans Wake
  • I: Famine
  • The persistence of Famine in postcolonial Ireland
  • The specter of Famine during World War II
  • Part II: Revolution
  • Ancient warriors, modernsexualities: Easter 1916 and the advent of post-Catholic Ireland
  • Gothic inheritance and the Troubles in contemporary Irish fiction
  • Conclusion: Famine and the Western Front in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.