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Violence, Politics and Textual Interventions in Northern Ireland
Peter Mahon
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Description for Violence, Politics and Textual Interventions in Northern Ireland
Hardcover. Using the work of Rene Girard and Jacques Lacan, Mahon develops a new theoretical framework for reading the dynamic interplay of textuality, sexuality, violence, politics, reciprocity and the body in key literary and cinematic texts that engage with the period of political and social unrest in Northern Ireland known as the 'Troubles' (1968-1998). Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; 3JJP; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
Using the work of René Girard and Jacques Lacan, Mahon develops a new theoretical framework for reading the dynamic interplay of textuality, sexuality, violence, politics, reciprocity and the body in key literary and cinematic texts that engage with the period of political and social unrest in Northern Ireland known as the 'Troubles' (1968-1998).
Using the work of René Girard and Jacques Lacan, Mahon develops a new theoretical framework for reading the dynamic interplay of textuality, sexuality, violence, politics, reciprocity and the body in key literary and cinematic texts that engage with the period of political and social unrest in Northern Ireland known as the 'Troubles' (1968-1998).
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
Condition
New
Number of Pages
259
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230576438
SKU
V9780230576438
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99-15
About Peter Mahon
PETER MAHON teaches in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of Imagining Joyce and Derrida: Between Finnegans Wake and Glas and Joyce: A Guide for the Perplexed. He has published essays in ELH, James Joyce Quarterly, Irish University Review and Partial Answers and is currently compiling a collection called PostHuman Joyce: ... Read more
Reviews for Violence, Politics and Textual Interventions in Northern Ireland
'Peter Mahon's book is both timely and original, with a good sense of the vital significance of literature in Irish history. It is a trenchant scholarly intervention but will also interest a wide range of readers in both Ireland and Britain. I expect the book to become a model of the analysis of the cultural effects of political violence.' - ... Read more