The ecology of Finnegans wake
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The ecology of Finnegans wake
(The Florida James Joyce series)
University Press of Florida, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary: This work defies the popular critical view of James Joyce as a thoroughly urban writer and demonstrates his consistent interest in environmental themes through a study of Finnegans Wake
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In this book - one of the first ecocritical explorations of Irish literature - Alison Lacivita defies the popular view of James Joyce as a thoroughly urban writer by bringing to light his consistent engagement with nature. Using genetic criticism to investigate Joyce's source texts, notebooks, and proofs, Lacivita shows how Joyce developed ecological themes in Finnegans Wake over successive drafts.
Making apparent a love of growing things and a lively connection with the natural world across his texts, Lacivita's approach reveals Joyce's keen attention to the Irish landscape, meteorology, urban planning, Dublin's ecology, the exploitation of nature, and fertilityand reproduction. Lacivita unearths a vital quality of Joyce's work that has largely gone undetected, decisively aligning ecocriticism with both modernism and Irish studies.
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