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Haunted Historiographies : The Rhetoric of Ideology in Postcolonial Irish Fiction.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526111197
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Haunted HistoriographiesDDC classification:
  • 820.99415
LOC classification:
  • PR8803.S385 2014
Online resources:
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 -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: 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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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 -- Bibliography -- Index.

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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