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Modernism, Ireland and the Erotics of Memory »

Book cover image of Modernism, Ireland and the Erotics of Memory by Nicholas Andrew Miller

Authors: Nicholas Andrew Miller
ISBN-13: 9780521815833, ISBN-10: 0521815835
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: November 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Nicholas Andrew Miller

Nick Miller is Assistant Professor of English at Loyola College in Maryland. His scholarship on Joyce has appeared in the James Joyce Quarterly. This is his first book.

Book Synopsis

Nicholas Miller re-examines memory and its role in modern Irish culture.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: All history is local: modernism and the question of memory in a global Ireland1
Pt. IThe Erotics of Memory
1Lethal histories: memory-work and the text of the past21
2A Pisgah sight of history: critical authority and the promise of memory39
3A reservation under the name of Joyce: Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia and the symptom66
Pt. IIThe Spectacles of History
4The birth of a nation: Irish nationalism and the technology of memory, 1891-192197
5Fighting the waves: Yeats, Cuchulain and the lethal histories of "romantic Ireland"127
6Joyce's erotics of memory: temporal anamorphosis in Finnegans Wake153
Afterword: The ends of memory and the ex-sistence of Ireland186
Notes189
Bibliography209
Index218

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