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Eco-Joyce
The Environmental Imagination of James Joyce
Edited by Robert Joseph Brazeau , Derek Gladwin
Scholars working within Irish studies draw on a wide variety
of critical outlooks, including cultural studies, post-colonial studies,
transnational studies, gender studies and, of course, modernist studies; this
book will help that community become better acquainted with how ecocriticism
elucidates the work of Irish writers, and will encourage further research in
this direction. Even writers like Joyce, who are usually regarded as primarily
urban, exhibit a strong ecological dimension in their work, and there are many
other Irish writers who have produced work that directly engages issues in
ecology and environmental studies. Eco-Joyce covers a multitude of disciplines
in an attempt to serve as a point of entry into Joyce and ecocriticism, of
course, but it will also suggest ways in which Irish studies and modernist
studies could gain energy from this relatively new and vital approach.
This book review appeared in Stylus: Trade, Academic, and Professional Books - Fall 2014, book catalogue. For more information about, and to place an order of "Eco-Joyce," please check Stylus/Cork University Press website.
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