Matthew Schultz

Haunted historiographies (eBook, ePUB)

The rhetoric of ideology in postcolonial Irish fiction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Matthew Schultz maps rhetorical hauntings across a wide range of postcolonial Irish novels, and defines the spectre as a non-present presence that simultaneously symbolises and analyses an overlapping of Irish myth and Irish history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526111180
• Artikelnr.: 48795469

Autorenporträt

Matthew Schultz is the Writing Center Director at Vassar College

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Textual spectrality and Finnegans Wake 1. The persistence of
famine in postcolonial Ireland 2. The specter of famine during World War II
3. Ancient warriors, modern sexualities: 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 Bibliography Index