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Haunted Historiographies: The Rhetoric of Ideology in Postcolonial Irish Fiction

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Description for Haunted Historiographies: The Rhetoric of Ideology in Postcolonial Irish Fiction Hardcover. Matthew 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. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 388.

The spectres of history haunt Irish fiction. In this compelling study, Matthew Schultz maps these 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.

By exploring this exchange between literary discourse and historical events, Haunted historiographies provides literary historians and cultural critics with a theory of the spectre that exposes the various complex ways in which novelists remember, represent and reinvent historical narrative. It juxtaposes canonical and non-canonical novels that complicate long-held assumptions about four definitive ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719090929
SKU
9780719090929
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About Matthew Schultz
Matthew Schultz is the Writing Center Director at Vassar College -- .

Reviews for Haunted Historiographies: The Rhetoric of Ideology in Postcolonial Irish Fiction
‘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 ... Read more

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