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The article considers some of the ways in which Seamus Deane’s novel maps political, sectarian, and folkloric borders onto the Catholic tradition of textual exegesis. In particular, the essay argues that Reading in the Dark treats Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises as a productive site where both political and community identity are reconfigured through direct contact with literary-theoretical concerns.
January 2007: Peter Mahon teaches in the Department of English at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. His main areas of research are Joyce and Derrida and the theoretical issues surrounding violence in Northern Irish Literature and Film. He is the author of numerous entries in The Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada and The Dictionary of Literary Influences, 1914--2000, and his book, Imagining Joyce and Derrida: Between Finnegans Wake and Glas (University of Toronto Press) will appear in early 2007. An essay on the sales figures of Finnegans Wake will appear in the next volume of the James Joyce Quarterly.
