Joyce's Ghosts

Ireland, Modernism, and Memory

By: Luke Gibbons

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Paperback | 2 October 2017 | Edition Number 1

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For decades, James Joyceâs modernism has overshadowed his Irishness, as his self-imposed exile and association with the high modernism of Europeâs urban centers has led critics to see him almost exclusively as a cosmopolitan figure.

In Joyceâs Ghosts, Luke Gibbons mounts a powerful argument that this view is mistaken: Joyceâs Irishness is intrinsic to his modernism, informing his most distinctive literary experiments. Ireland, Gibbons shows, is not just a source of subject matter or content for Joyce, but of form itself. Joyceâs stylistic innovations can be traced at least as much to the tragedies of Irish history as to the shock of European modernity, as he explores the incomplete project of inner life under colonialism. Joyceâs language, Gibbons reveals, is haunted by ghosts, less concerned with the stream of consciousness than with a vernacular interior dialogue, the âshout in the street,â that gives room to outside voices and shadowy presences, the disruptions of a late colonial culture in crisis.

Showing us how memory under modernism breaks free of the nightmare of history, and how in doing so it gives birth to new forms, Gibbons forces us to think anew about Joyceâs achievement and its foundations.

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"Gibbons has an extraordinary eye for clusters of association, the kind of details which cumulatively imprint themselves on to readers' unconscious minds. . . . Joyce's Ghosts is . . . a deeply original work which does not have a quotable, one-line 'argument' or 'claim.' It is part of a refreshing new wave of literary criticism that is written in clear, hospitable prose, driven by genuine passion, more concerned with illuminating readers than with winning them over."-- "Irish Times"
"Gibbons is admirably sure-footed in traversing the linguistic byways of Irish modernism. Joyce's Ghosts conveys the knowledge and insight of a native informant with a lively wit that is sure to appeal to every persuasion and rank of Joyceans."--Maria DiBattista, Princeton University
"Joyce's Ghosts is extraordinary: original, exceptionally well researched, significant, and beautifully written. Gibbons has succeeded in meshing an attentiveness to history, especially the history of Ireland, with an equally astute awareness of textual details and the formal structures that pattern them. His work is nothing short of brilliant."--Vicki Mahaffey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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