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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798568303321

Autore

Schultz Matthew

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2014

New York, New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [date of distribution not identified]

2014

ISBN

1-78170-722-7

1-5261-1119-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

823.91099417

Soggetti

English fiction - Irish authors - History and criticism

Ideology in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

BibliographyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

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.