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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schultz, Matthew (Professor of English) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
English fiction > Irish authors > History and criticism.
Ideology in literature.
Roman anglais > Auteurs irlandais > Histoire et critique.
Idéologie dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Ideology in literature
English fiction > Irish authors
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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