James Joyce and the Irish revolution : the Easter Rising as modern event /

"2022 is the centenary both of the founding of the Irish State and the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses. In this book, which describes a more radical edge than previous treatments of Joyce, Luke Gibbons counters much of the Joyce and modernism scholarship, while challenging popular his...

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Main Author: Gibbons, Luke (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. "Old Haunts": Photographic Memory, Motion, and the Republic of Letters
  • 2. Modern Epic and Revolution: Montage in the Margins
  • 3. "A World That Ran Through Things": Ulysses, the Easter Rising, and Spatial Form
  • 4. The Easter Rising as Modern Event: Media, Technology, and Terror
  • 5. "Paving Over the Abyss": Ireland, War, and Literary Modernism
  • 6. "Through the Eyes of Another Race": Ulysses, Roger Casement, and the Politics of umanitarianism
  • 7. Transatlantic "Usable Pasts": America, Literary Modernism, and the Irish Revolution
  • 8. On Another Man's Text: Ernie O'Malley, Politics, and Irish Modernism
  • 9. Beyond Disillusionment: Desmond Ryan, Ulysses, and the Irish Revolution.