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Modernism, Ireland and the Erotics of Memory
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Modernism, Ireland and the Erotics of Memory
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Nicholas Andrew Miller
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:240 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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| Category/Genre | Literary studies - general |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521118958
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| Classifications | Dewey:820.9415 |
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| Audience | | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | | Professional & Vocational | |
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| Illustrations |
Worked examples or Exercises
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
3 September 2009 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
In Modernism, Ireland and the Erotics of Memory Nicholas Miller re-examines memory and its role in modern Irish culture. Arguing that a continuous renegotiation of memory is characteristic of Irish modernist writing, Miller investigates a series of case-studies in modern Irish historical imagination. He reassesses Ireland's self-construction through external or 'foreign' discourses such as the cinema, and proposes readings of Yeats and Joyce as 'counter-memorialists'. Combining theoretical and historical approaches, Miller shows how the modernist handling of history transforms both memory and the story of the past by highlighting readers' investments in histories that are produced, specifically and concretely, through local acts of reading. This original study will attract scholars of Modernism, Irish studies, film and literary theory.
Author Biography
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.
Reviews'... an impressively wide-ranging book.' Irish Review
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