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Book SynopsisMatthew Schultz maps rhetorical hauntings across a wide range of postcolonial Irish novels, and defines the spectre as a non-present presence that simultaneously symbolises and analyses an overlapping of Irish myth and Irish history. -- .
Trade Review‘This is a generally well-informed study that makes ingenious use of the spectral in relation to a range of diverse texts.’
Emer Nolan, Maynooth University, James Joyce Quarterly, Volume 52, Number 1, Fall 2014
‘Although it is very much a monograph (single author, single idea) rather than a survey or text book, there is a likelihood that the focus on a range of well-known texts will recommend it to teachers and learners from the Irish
Studies community around the world.’
Gerry Smyth, Liverpool John Moores University, The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies Vol. 39, No. 1
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: Textual spectrality and Finnegans Wake
1. The persistence of famine in postcolonial Ireland
2. The specter of famine during World War II
3. Ancient warriors, modern sexualities: Easter 1916 and the advent of post-Catholic Ireland
4. Gothic inheritance and the Troubles in contemporary Irish fiction
Conclusion: Famine and the Western Front in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
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