Revolutionary Damnation - Sheldon Brivic - Bog

In Irish fiction, the most famous example of the embrace of damnation in order to gain freedom 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.