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

• Autore: Schultz Matthew
• Pubblicazione: Manchester, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2014; New York, New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [date of distribution not identified]; 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Disciplina: 823.91099417
• Soggetto topico: English fiction - Irish authors - History and criticism; Ideology in literature
• Soggetto non controllato: Hauntology; Historiography; Ireland; Novel; Postcolonialism; Rhetoric
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Haunted historiographies
• ISBN: 1-78170-722-7; 1-5261-1119-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798568303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II