The Ecology of Finnegans Wake
In this book-one of the first ecocritical explorations of Irish literature-Alison Lacivita defies the popular view of James Joyce as a thoroughly urban writer by bringing to light his consistent engagement with nature. Using genetic criticism to investigate Joyce's source texts, notebooks, and...
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| Sprache: | English |
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University Press of Florida
2015
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| Schriftenreihe: | Florida James Joyce
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| Zusammenfassung: | In this book-one of the first ecocritical explorations of Irish literature-Alison Lacivita defies the popular view of James Joyce as a thoroughly urban writer by bringing to light his consistent engagement with nature. Using genetic criticism to investigate Joyce's source texts, notebooks, and proofs, Lacivita shows how Joyce developed ecological themes in Finnegans Wake over successive drafts. Making apparent a love of growing things and a lively connection with the natural world across his texts, Lacivita's approach reveals Joyce's keen attention to the Irish landscape, meteorology, urban planning, Dublin's ecology, the exploitation of nature, and fertility and reproduction. Alison Lacivita unearths a vital quality of Joyce's work that has largely gone undetected, decisively aligning ecocriticism with both modernism and Irish studies |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (315 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780813055367 |