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Book SynopsisProvides a critical introduction to the key theoretical developments in contemporary Irish cultural criticism since the mid-1980s. Draws on aspects of the work of all the critics considered to advance a new theory of the representation of subjectivity in Irish writing. -- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Sublime Object of Subalternity
1. ‘Keeping that Wound Green’: Luke Gibbons, Traumaculture and the Subject of Exclusion.
2. The Logic of the Residue: David Lloyd, Subjectivity and the Popular.
3. Seamus Deane and the Rhetoric of the Fragment.
4. W.J. McCormack: The Libidinal Economy of Ascendancy.
5. Hollow Universalism: Feminism, Modernity and Myth.
6. Modernism, Nationalism and Postcolonialism: Four Figures from ‘The Dead’.
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