{"product_id":"finnegans-wake-human-and-nonhuman-histories-9781399529433","title":"Finnegans Wake - Human and Nonhuman Histories","description":"\u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake - Human and Nonhuman Histories\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake.\u003c\/i\u003e The volume's focus allows the contributors to read the \u003ci\u003eWake's\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Barlow is an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and a former Academic Director of the Trieste Joyce School. His articles have appeared in \u003ci\u003eIrish Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJames Joyce Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eScottish Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eModern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms\u003c\/i\u003e (2023) and \u003ci\u003eThe Celtic Unconscious: Joyce and Scottish Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2017). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, and an elected member of the International James Joyce Foundation Board of Trustees. Paul is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eIrish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities\u003c\/i\u003e (2021) and \u003ci\u003eStage Irish: Performance, Identity, Cultural Circulation\u003c\/i\u003e (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'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50900838514962,"sku":"9781399529433","price":130.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_76e1b59d-9179-49b5-90e9-d7364be48b4d.jpg?v=1738399357","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/finnegans-wake-human-and-nonhuman-histories-9781399529433","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}