Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

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Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Av Richard Barlow, Paul Fagan, Nanyang Technological University) Barlow, Richard (Associate Professor, Maynooth University) Fagan, Paul (Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow

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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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Utgivningsdatum2026-03-31
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399529440

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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'.

AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction – Finnegans Wake: Joyce’s ‘cyclewheeling history’ of ‘our funnaminal world’Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan1. Fossils and Fossil Fuels: Nonhuman Energy and Decay in Finnegans WakeKatherine Ebury2. ‘The night of the Apophanypes’: Finnegans Wake and the Big Wind of 1839Katherine O’Callaghan3. River, Sea, Rain: Bodies of Water in ALP’s SoliloquyShinjini Chattopadhyay4. Hydrofeminist Histories: The Phenomenology of Bodily Fluids in Finnegans WakeLaura Gibbs5. Finnegans Wake and the Irish RevivalRichard Barlow6. ‘piously forged palimpsests’: Nonhuman Skins in Finnegans WakePaul Fagan7. Becoming Wolf: The Nonhuman Life of Shem the PenmanAnnalisa Volpone8. Impossible Mourning in Finnegans WakeChristopher DeVault9. ‘Life… is a wake, livit or krikit’: Life – from a Nonhuman PerspectiveSam Slote10. Finnegans Wake: AtomicRuben Borg11. ‘singsigns to soundsense’: Music and the Nonhuman in Finnegans WakeMichelle Witen12. Crowdsourcing the WakeRonan CrowleyBibliographyIndex