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Revolutionary Damnation - Badiou and Irish Fiction from Joyce to Enright (Hardcover)
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Revolutionary Damnation - Badiou and Irish Fiction from Joyce to Enright (Hardcover)
Series: Irish Studies
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In Irish fiction, the most famous example of the embrace of
damnation in order to gain freedom-politically, religiously, and
creatively-is Joyce's Stephen Dedalus. His "non serviam," though,
is not just the profound rebellion of one frustrated young man,
but, as Brivic demonstrates in this sweeping account of
twentieth-century Irish fiction, the emblematic and necessary
standpoint for any artist wishing to envision something truly new.
Because Irish culture was largely dictated by the Catholic Church
and its conservatism, the most ambitious Irish writers, like Joyce,
Beckett, and the ten others Brivic presents here, saw the
privileges of damnation and seized them, rejecting powerful norms
of church, state, and culture, as well as of literary form, voice,
and character, to produce some of the most radical work of the
twentieth century. Brivic links the work of writers such as Flann
O'Brien, Patrick McCabe, and Anne Enright to the theories of Alain
Badiou. His mathematical procedure for distinguishing what is truly
innovative informs the progressive political and philosophical
thrust that these writers at their best carry on from Joyceand
Beckett to unfold a fierce tradition that extends into the
twenty-first century.
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