Memory Ireland: Volume 4: James Joyce and Cultural Memory - Hardcover

by Oona Frawley (Editor), Katherine O'Callaghan (Editor)

In the fourth and final volume of the Memory Ireland series, Frawley and O'Callaghan explore the manifestations and values of cultural memory in Joyce's Ireland, both real and imagined. An exemplary author to consider in relation to questions of how history is remembered and recycled, Joyce creates characters who confront particularly the fraught relationship between the individual and the historical past; between the crisis of colonial history and the colonized state; and between the individual's memory of his or her own past and the past of the broader culture.

The collection includes leading Joyce scholars--Vincent Cheng, Anne Fogarty, Luke Gibbons, and Declan Kiberd--and considers such topics as Jewish memory in Ulysses, history and memory in Finnegans Wake, and Joyce and the Bible.

Author Biography

Oona Frawley is a lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She is the editor of several studies of Irish literature and the author of Irish Pastoral: Nostalgia in Twentieth-Century Irish Literature and Flight.

Katherine O'Callaghan is an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland postdoctoral fellow at Trinity College Dublin. She has taught at University College Dublin, the National University of Ireland, Galway, and the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.