Description: Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
Brief description: Richard Barlow is an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University and a former Academic Director of the Trieste Joyce School. He is the author of The Celtic Unconscious: Joyce and Scottish Culture (2017) and Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms (2023).
Review Quotes: This edited collection kindles anew a sense of awe at the extraordinary, totalising energies of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and the multitude of worlds the novel evokes within, as well as keen admiration for the deft sophistication with which its contributors elucidate the multiplicitous dimensions of Joyce's imagination of the "cyclewheeling history" of "our funanimal world". The volume's essays are as effervescent as the nonhuman lives and objects depicted in the Wake's prose[...] Collectively, the contributors dynamically evoke the way in which the novel layers, merges, inverts, or subverts human and nonhuman perspectives, in a textual method that is not binary in its pairing of oppositions, but rather palimpsestic, accretive and multi-scalar.--Sharae Deckard, University College Dublin "Estudios Irlandeses"