Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories
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- ISBN 9781399529433
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2024
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Finnegans Wake Human and Nonhuman Histories opens new ground by exploring the productive tension between anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric readings of James Joyce's final modernist masterpiece. Drawing on the most up-to-date theories and methodologies (the Anthropocene, new materialism, petroculture studies, the blue humanities, animal studies, ecofeminism, ecomedia), twelve leading Joyce scholars offer valuable new insights into the interwoven historical and planetary dimensions of Finnegans Wake. The volume's focus allows the contributors to read the Wake's nonhuman imaginary in original, often surprising comparative contexts (colonialism, the Irish Revival, the Free State's energy policies, the invention of television) and to spotlight enlightening nonhuman themes in Joyce's circular history (bogs, storms, rivers, bodily fluids, skin, wolves, mourning, DNA, atoms, labour, music). As these chapters show, a century later, Finnegans Wake remains a vibrant and vital text in which to interrogate the limits, exploitations and common plight of human and nonhuman life in the 21st-century.
Richard Barlow is an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University and a former Academic Director of the Trieste Joyce School. He is the author of The Celtic Unconscious: Joyce and Scottish Culture (2017) and Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms (2023). Paul Fagan is an Irish Research Council fellow at Maynooth University. He is a co-founder of the International Flann O’Brien Society, a founding general editor of The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies, and an elected member of the International James Joyce Foundation Board of Trustees. Paul is the co-editor of Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities (2021) and Stage Irish: Performance, Identity, Cultural Circulation (2021) as well as four edited volumes on Flann O’Brien. He is currently finalising monographs on ‘Irish Literary Hoaxes’ and ‘Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing, 1860s–1950s'.
