Nicholas Andrew Miller

Modernism, Ireland and the Erotics of Memory

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Produktbeschreibung

Nicholas Miller re-examines memory and its role in modern Irish culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780521118958
• ISBN-10: 0521118956
• Artikelnr.: 26572835

Autorenporträt

Nick Miller is Assistant Professor of English at Loyola College in Maryland. His scholarship on Joyce has appeared in the James Joyce Quarterly. This is his first book.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. All history is local: Modernism and the question of memory in a global Ireland
Part I. The Erotics of Memory: 1. Lethal histories: memory-work and the text of the past
2. A Pisgah sight of history: critical authority and the promise of memory
3. A reservation under the name of Joyce: Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia and the symptom
Part II. The Spectacles of History: 4. The birth of a nation: Irish nationalism and the technology of memory, 1891¿1921
5. Fighting the waves: Yeats, Cuchulain and the lethal histories of 'Romantic Ireland'
6. Joyce's erotics of memory: temporal anamorphosis in Finnegans Wake
Afterword. The ends of memory and the ex-sistence of Ireland.