BOOK: Subjectivity and Nationhood in Yeats, Joyce and Beckett

Subjectivity and Nationhood in Yeats, Joyce and Beckett: Nietzschean Constellations By Matthew Fogarty Liverpool Studies in Irish Literature This new publication reconceptualises Friedrich Nietzsche’s position in the intellectual history of modernism and substantively refigures our received ideas regarding his relationship to these Irish modernists. Building on recent developments in new modernist studies, the book demonstrates that Nietzsche is a modernist

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CFP: Geographies of Comparison: Ireland / Africa

Geographies of Comparison: Ireland / Africa (ACLA 2017, Utrecht, July 6-9, 2017)) Deadline for submissions: September 23, 2016 Full name / name of organization: Cóilín Parsons Contact email: coilin.parsons@georgetown.edu  Ireland was, as Robert Young writes, England’s first and always exceptional colony. But it was far from the only one. Its unique colonial status has yielded productive scholarship addressing its anomalous

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