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Semicolonial Joyce
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Semicolonial Joyce
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| Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Derek Attridge
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Edited by Marjorie Howes
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:280 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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| Category/Genre | Literary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521666282
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| Classifications | Dewey:823.912 |
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| Audience | | Professional & Vocational | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | |
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| Illustrations |
1 Tables, unspecified; 4 Halftones, unspecified
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
22 June 2000 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
James Joyce's fiction constantly engages with an Ireland whose present and past is marked by the long struggle to achieve full independence from Britain. Semicolonial Joyce is the first collection of essays to address the importance of Ireland's colonial situation in understanding Joyce's work. The volume brings together leading commentators on the Irish dimension of Joyce's writing, such as Vincent J. Cheng, Seamus Deane, Enda Duffy, Luke Gibbons, David Lloyd, and Emer Nolan, to present a range of voices rather than a single position on a topic which has had a major impact on Joyce criticism in recent years. Contributors explore Joyce's ambivalent and shifting response to Irish nationalism and reconsider his writing in the context of the history of Western colonialism. The essays both draw on and question the achievements of postcolonial theory, and provide fresh insights into Joyce's resourceful engagement with political issues that remain highly topical today.
Reviews'Each of the writers included here ... offers cogent and constructive accounts of Joyce's writing that further our understanding of an increasingly complex area of study ...' James Joyce Literary Supplement
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