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Book Launch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

5 October 2024 at 6.30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Please join us at the James Joyce Centre on Saturday, 5 October 2024 at 6.30pm<\/strong> for the launch of two extraordinary new works of scholarship about James Joyce and Flann O’Brien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finnegans Wake \u2013 Human and Nonhuman Histories<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (Edinburgh University Press; edited by Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan) opens new ground by exploring the productive tension between anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric readings of James Joyce\u2019s final modernist masterpiece. Drawing on the most up-to-date theories and methodologies, twelve leading Joyce scholars offer valuable new insights into the interwoven historical and planetary dimensions of Finnegans Wake<\/em>. The volume\u2019s focus allows the contributors to read the Wake\u2019s nonhuman imaginary in original, often surprising comparative contexts and to spotlight enlightening nonhuman themes in Joyce\u2019s circular history. A century later, Finnegans Wake<\/em> remains a vibrant and vital text in which to interrogate the limits, exploitations and common plight of human and nonhuman life in the 21st-century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flann O\u2019Brien and the Nonhuman: Environments, Animals, Machines<\/strong><\/a> (Cork University Press; edited by Katherine Ebury, Paul Fagan and John Greaney) is the first book to explore in detail the author\u2019s interest in the agency, materiality, and potential sentience of environments, animals and machines. At every turn, O\u2019Brien\u2019s writing challenges anthropocentric values and troubles conventional notions of the human. O\u2019Brien\u2019s deconstruction of conventional narratives of the human-nonhuman binary extends across genres. Drawing on a wide range of methodologies, paradigms and theorists, the contributors unearth new historical contexts for the study of O\u2019Brien. These interventions not only bring new dimensions of O\u2019Brien\u2019s work to the surface, but reveal him as a key but overlooked figure for understanding the role of the nonhuman in Irish modernist cultural production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The collections will be launched by Sharae Deckard\u00a0and Tom Walker, with additional remarks by the editors Paul Fagan, Richard Barlow, Katherine Ebury and Carol Wade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doors open at 6pm. Tickets are free but booking is essential. For tickets, click this link.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Barlow<\/strong> 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<\/em> (Notre Dame University Press, 2017) and Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharae Deckard<\/strong> is Associate Professor in UCD\u2019s School of English. Her most recent book is Tracking Capital: World-Systems, World-Ecology, World-Culture<\/em>, co-authored with Michael Niblett and Stephen Shapiro (SUNY Press, 2024). Sharae has co-edited six special issues of journals, including: \u201cFood, Energy, Climate: Irish Culture and World-Ecology\u201d for Irish University Review<\/em> and \u201cIreland in the World-System,\u201d for Journal of World-Systems Research<\/em>. With Treasa De Loughry, she is co-investigator of the \u2018Cultural Imaginaries of Just Transition\u2019 project at UCD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katherine Ebury<\/strong> is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of Modernism and Cosmology: Absurd Lights<\/em> (2014) and Modern Literature and the Death Penalty, 1890\u20131950<\/em> (2021) and the co-editor of Joyce\u2019s Nonfiction Writing: Outside his Jurisfiction<\/em> (2018), Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism<\/em> (2023) and Progressive Intertextual Practice in Modern and Contemporary<\/em> Literature<\/em> (2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Fagan<\/strong> is Assistant Professor at LMU Munich, and the leader of the Irish Research Council project Celibacy in Irish Women\u2019s Writing, 1860s\u20131950s. He is the co-editor of Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities<\/em> (2021), Stage Irish: Performance, Identity, Cultural Circulation<\/em> (2021) and five Flann O\u2019Brien essay collections with Cork University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carol Wade<\/strong> is an artist and illustrator. Her project Art of the Wake<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is an imaginative exploration of Finnegans Wake<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom Walker<\/strong> is Associate Professor at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Louis MacNeice and the Irish Poetry of His Time<\/em> (2015) and the co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to W.B. Yeats and the Arts<\/em> (2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4060,"parent":0,"template":"","event_cats":[18],"class_list":["post-4053","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_categories-book-launch"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFinnegans Wake & Flann O'Brien - James Joyce Centre, Dublin, Ireland<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Finnegans Wake & Flann O'Brien - James Joyce Centre, Dublin, Ireland\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Book Launch 5 October 2024 at 6.30pm Please join us at the James Joyce Centre on Saturday, 5 October 2024 at 6.30pm for the launch of two extraordinary new works of scholarship about James Joyce and Flann O’Brien. 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