Contemporary Irish Women Poets : Memory and Estrangement / Lucy Collins.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Liverpool English texts and studies ; 66 | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (224 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781781384695
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Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Memory, Estrangement and the Poetic Text; I Concepts; 1 Lost Lands: The Creation of Memory in the Poetry of Eavan Boland; 2 Between Here and There: Migrant Identities and the Contemporary Irish Woman Poet; 3 Private Memory and the Construction of Subjectivity in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry; II Achievements; 4 Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin's Spaces of Memory; 5 Medbh McGuckian's Radical Temporalities; 6 Catherine Walsh: A Poetics of Flux; 7 Vona Groarke: Memory and Materiality; Conclusion: Memories of the Future ; Bibliography
Summary: This book examines the intersection of private and public spheres through the representation of memory in contemporary poetry by Irish women. It explores how memory shapes creativity in the work of well-known poets such as Eavan Boland, Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin and Medbh McGuckian as well as in that of an exciting group of younger poets.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Memory, Estrangement and the Poetic Text; I Concepts; 1 Lost Lands: The Creation of Memory in the Poetry of Eavan Boland; 2 Between Here and There: Migrant Identities and the Contemporary Irish Woman Poet; 3 Private Memory and the Construction of Subjectivity in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry; II Achievements; 4 Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin's Spaces of Memory; 5 Medbh McGuckian's Radical Temporalities; 6 Catherine Walsh: A Poetics of Flux; 7 Vona Groarke: Memory and Materiality; Conclusion: Memories of the Future ; Bibliography

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This book examines the intersection of private and public spheres through the representation of memory in contemporary poetry by Irish women. It explores how memory shapes creativity in the work of well-known poets such as Eavan Boland, Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin and Medbh McGuckian as well as in that of an exciting group of younger poets.

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