Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories explores the productive tension between anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric readings of James Joyces final modernist masterpiece, offering valuable insights into the interwoven historical and planetary dimensions of the Wake. It focuses on the nonhuman imaginary and highlights enlightening nonhuman themes in Joyces circular history, making it a vibrant and vital text for interrogating the limits, exploitations, and common plight of human and nonhuman life in the 21st century.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 30 September 2024
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories is a groundbreaking work that explores the productive tension between anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric readings of James Joyces final modernist masterpiece. Drawing on the latest theories and methodologies, twelve leading Joyce scholars offer valuable new insights into the interwoven historical and planetary dimensions of Finnegans Wake. The volumes focus allows the contributors to read the Wakes nonhuman imaginary in original, often surprising comparative contexts, such as colonialism, the Irish Revival, the Free States energy policies, and the invention of television. As these chapters show, a century later, Finnegans Wake 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.

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories is a groundbreaking work that explores the productive tension between anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric readings of James Joyces final modernist masterpiece. Drawing on the latest theories and methodologies, twelve leading Joyce scholars offer valuable new insights into the interwoven historical and planetary dimensions of Finnegans Wake. The volumes focus allows the contributors to read the Wakes nonhuman imaginary in original, often surprising comparative contexts, such as colonialism, the Irish Revival, the Free States energy policies, and the invention of television. As these chapters show, a century later, Finnegans Wake 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.

Weight: 532g
Dimension: 240 x 160 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399529433