The Ecology of Finnegans Wake

In this book - one of the first ecocritical explorations of Irish literature - Alison Lacivita defies the popular view of James Joyce as a thoroughly urban writer by bringing to light his consistent engagement with nature. Using genetic criticism to investigate JoyceAEs source texts, notebooks, and [...]
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In this book - one of the first ecocritical explorations of Irish literature - Alison Lacivita defies the popular view of James Joyce as a thoroughly urban writer by bringing to light his consistent engagement with nature. Using genetic criticism to investigate JoyceAEs source texts, notebooks, and proofs, Lacivita shows how Joyce developed ecological themes in Finnegans Wake over successive drafts. Making apparent a love of growing things and a lively connection with the natural world across his texts, LacivitaAEs approach reveals JoyceAEs keen attention to the Irish landscape, meteorology, urban planning, DublinAEs ecology, the exploitation of nature, and fertilityand reproduction. Lacivita unearths a vital quality of JoyceAEs work that has largely gone undetected, decisively aligning ecocriticism with both modernism and Irish studies.