Contemporary Irish women poets : memory and estrangement /

Collins, Lucy, 1967-

Contemporary Irish women poets : memory and estrangement / Lucy Collins. - 1 online resource - Liverpool English texts and studies ; 66 . - Liverpool English texts and studies ; 66. .

Previously issued in print: 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Eiléan 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

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, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Medbh McGuckian as well as in that of an exciting group of younger poets.

Specialized.

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22573/ctt1gnzgcf JSTOR 102610 Knowledge Unlatched


English poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.
English poetry--Irish authors--History and criticism.
English poetry--Irish authors.
English poetry--Women authors.
POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
Literary studies: poetry & poets


Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.

PR8772 / .C65 2016

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