Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781399529440 (ISBN)
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Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories opens new ground by exploring the productive tension between anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric readings of James Joyce’s final modernist masterpiece. Drawing on the most up-to-date theories and methodologies (the Anthropocene, new materialism, petroculture studies, the blue humanities, animal studies, ecofeminism, ecomedia), twelve leading Joyce scholars offer valuable new insights into the interwoven historical and planetary dimensions of Finnegans Wake. The volume’s focus allows the contributors to read the Wake’s nonhuman imaginary in original, often surprising comparative contexts (colonialism, the Irish Revival, the Free State’s energy policies, the invention of television) and to spotlight enlightening nonhuman themes in Joyce’s circular history (bogs, storms, rivers, bodily fluids, skin, wolves, mourning, DNA, atoms, labour, music). As these chapters show, a century later, Finnegans Wake remains a vibrant and vital text in which to interrogate the limits, exploitations and common plight of human and nonhuman life in the 21st-century.
Richard Barlow is an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University and a former Academic Director of the Trieste Joyce School. He is the author of The Celtic Unconscious: Joyce and Scottish Culture (2017) and Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms (2023). Paul Fagan is an Irish Research Council fellow at Maynooth University. He is a co-founder of the International Flann O’Brien Society, a founding general editor of The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies, and an elected member of the International James Joyce Foundation Board of Trustees. Paul is the co-editor of Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities (2021) and Stage Irish: Performance, Identity, Cultural Circulation (2021) as well as four edited volumes on Flann O’Brien. He is currently finalising monographs on ‘Irish Literary Hoaxes’ and ‘Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing, 1860s–1950s'.
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction – Finnegans Wake: Joyce’s ‘cyclewheeling history’ of ‘our funnaminal world’
Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan
1. Fossils and Fossil Fuels: Nonhuman Energy and Decay in Finnegans Wake
Katherine Ebury
2. ‘The night of the Apophanypes’: Finnegans Wake and the Big Wind of 1839
Katherine O’Callaghan
3. River, Sea, Rain: Bodies of Water in ALP’s Soliloquy
Shinjini Chattopadhyay
4. Hydrofeminist Histories: The Phenomenology of Bodily Fluids in Finnegans Wake
Laura Gibbs
5. Finnegans Wake and the Irish Revival
Richard Barlow
6. ‘piously forged palimpsests’: Nonhuman Skins in Finnegans Wake
Paul Fagan
7. Becoming Wolf: The Nonhuman Life of Shem the Penman
Annalisa Volpone
8. Impossible Mourning in Finnegans Wake
Christopher DeVault
9. ‘Life… is a wake, livit or krikit’: Life – from a Nonhuman Perspective
Sam Slote
10. Finnegans Wake: Atomic
Ruben Borg
11. ‘singsigns to soundsense’: Music and the Nonhuman in Finnegans Wake
Michelle Witen
12. Crowdsourcing the Wake
Ronan Crowley
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781399529440 / 9781399529440 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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