Introduction: Textual spectrality and Finnegans Wake
Introduction: Textual spectrality and Finnegans Wake
A reconsideration of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (1939) that forecasts Jacques Derrida’s notion of spectrality as a viable theoretical lens for the Twenty-First Century, even as the spectral figure aids our reinterpretation of Joyce’s text. For Joyce’s corpus, central to Irish literary tradition, celebrates this impurity and offers us insight into contemporary postcolonial novelists’ motivations for and methods of reinvention.
Keywords: James Joyce, Jacques Derrida, Hauntology, Celtic Renaissance, Irish Nationalism
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