Finnegans Wake, Flann O'Brien, Human and Nonhuman
Schedule
Sat Oct 05 2024 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
35 North Great George's Street,Dublin 1,D01 WK44,IE | Dublin, DN
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Please join us at the James Joyce Centre on Saturday, October 5th at 6.30pm for the launch of two extraordinary new works of scholarship about James Joyce and Flann O'Brien.Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories (Edinburgh UP; edited by Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan) opens new ground by exploring the productive tension between anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric readings of James Joyce’s final modernist masterpiece. Drawing on the most up-to-date theories and methodologies, twelve leading Joyce scholars offer valuable new insights into the interwoven historical and planetary dimensions of Finnegans Wake . The volume’s focus allows the contributors to read the Wake’s nonhuman imaginary in original, often surprising comparative contexts and to spotlight enlightening nonhuman themes in Joyce’s circular history. 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.
Flann O’Brien and the Nonhuman: Environments, Animals, Machines (Cork UP; edited by Katherine Ebury, Paul Fagan and John Greaney) is the first book to explore in detail the author’s interest in the agency, materiality, and potential sentience of environments, animals and machines. At every turn, O’Brien’s writing challenges anthropocentric values and troubles conventional notions of the human. O’Brien’s deconstruction of conventional narratives of the human-nonhuman binary extends across genres. Drawing on a wide range of methodologies, paradigms and theorists, the contributors unearth new historical contexts for the study of O’Brien. These interventions not only bring new dimensions of O’Brien’s work to the surface, but reveal him as a key but overlooked figure for understanding the role of the nonhuman in Irish modernist cultural production.
The speakers include the editors Paul Fagan, Richard Barlow and Katherine Ebury as well as contributors Sharae Deckard and Tom Walker.
Doors open at 6pm. Tickets are free but booking is essential.
The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
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35 North Great George's Street,Dublin 1,D01 WK44,IE, James Joyce House, 35 North Great Georges Street, Dublin, County Dublin, D01 WK44, Ireland,Dublin, IrelandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
