Fizzing with ideas, Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories, offers a revitalizing contribution to Wake studies. [...]this edited collection recuperates rich seams of environmental meaning embedded within the Wake.

[...]Overall, this volume is a new, important reference for Finnegans Wake studies that galvanises a number of nonhuman and ecocritical approaches.

- Christopher Wogan, University of York, The Modernist Review

This edited collection kindles anew a sense of awe at the extraordinary, totalising energies of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and the multitude of worlds the novel evokes within, as well as keen admiration for the deft sophistication with which its contributors elucidate the multiplicitous dimensions of Joyce’s imagination of the “cyclewheeling history” of “our funanimal world”. The volume’s essays are as effervescent as the nonhuman lives and objects depicted in the Wake’s prose[...] Collectively, the contributors dynamically evoke the way in which the novel layers, merges, inverts, or subverts human and nonhuman perspectives, in a textual method that is not binary in its pairing of oppositions, but rather palimpsestic, accretive and multi-scalar.

- Sharae Deckard, University College Dublin, Estudios Irlandeses

An apt combination of text, topic, and contributors. With verve and urgency, these essay writers take up the discourses of new materialism, animal studies, ecocriticism, and genetics, as well as physics, historicism, feminism, and psychoanalysis, to draw out the interconnectedness of the human and the nonhuman in the Wake.

- Catherine Flynn, University of California, Berkeley,

Finnegans Wake Human and Nonhuman Histories opens new ground by exploring the productive tension between anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric readings of James Joyce's final modernist masterpiece. Drawing on the most up-to-date theories and methodologies (the Anthropocene, new materialism, petroculture studies, the blue humanities, animal studies, ecofeminism, ecomedia), twelve leading Joyce scholars offer valuable new insights into the interwoven historical and planetary dimensions of Finnegans Wake. The volume's focus allows the contributors to read the Wake's nonhuman imaginary in original, often surprising comparative contexts (colonialism, the Irish Revival, the Free State's energy policies, the invention of television) and to spotlight enlightening nonhuman themes in Joyce's circular history (bogs, storms, rivers, bodily fluids, skin, wolves, mourning, DNA, atoms, labour, music). As these chapters show, a century later, Finnegans Wake remains a vibrant and vital text in which to interrogate the limits, exploitations and common plight of human and nonhuman life in the 21st-century.
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Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake
Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction – Finnegans Wake: Joyce’s ‘cyclewheeling history’ of ‘our funnaminal world’ Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan 1. Fossils and Fossil Fuels: Nonhuman Energy and Decay in Finnegans Wake Katherine Ebury 2. ‘The night of the Apophanypes’: Finnegans Wake and the Big Wind of 1839 Katherine O’Callaghan 3. River, Sea, Rain: Bodies of Water in ALP’s Soliloquy Shinjini Chattopadhyay 4. Hydrofeminist Histories: The Phenomenology of Bodily Fluids in Finnegans Wake Laura Gibbs 5. Finnegans Wake and the Irish Revival Richard Barlow 6. ‘piously forged palimpsests’: Nonhuman Skins in Finnegans Wake Paul Fagan 7. Becoming Wolf: The Nonhuman Life of Shem the Penman Annalisa Volpone 8. Impossible Mourning in Finnegans Wake Christopher DeVault 9. ‘Life… is a wake, livit or krikit’: Life – from a Nonhuman Perspective Sam Slote 10. Finnegans Wake: Atomic Ruben Borg 11. ‘singsigns to soundsense’: Music and the Nonhuman in Finnegans Wake Michelle Witen 12. Crowdsourcing the Wake Ronan Crowley Bibliography Index
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Features work from leading Joyce scholars

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781399529433
Publisert
2024-09-30
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
256

Om bidragsyterne

Richard Barlow is an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University and a former Academic Director of the Trieste Joyce School. He is the author of The Celtic Unconscious: Joyce and Scottish Culture (2017) and Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms (2023). Paul Fagan is an Irish Research Council fellow at Maynooth University. He is a co-founder of the International Flann O’Brien Society, a founding general editor of The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies, and an elected member of the International James Joyce Foundation Board of Trustees. Paul is the co-editor of Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities (2021) and Stage Irish: Performance, Identity, Cultural Circulation (2021) as well as four edited volumes on Flann O’Brien. He is currently finalising monographs on ‘Irish Literary Hoaxes’ and ‘Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing, 1860s–1950s'.