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Autore |
Schultz Matthew |
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Titolo |
Haunted historiographies : the rhetoric of ideology in postcolonial Irish fiction / / Matthew Schultz |
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Manchester, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2014 |
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New York, New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [date of distribution not identified] |
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2014 |
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ISBN |
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1-78170-722-7 |
1-5261-1119-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English fiction - Irish authors - History and criticism |
Ideology in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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