Contemporary Irish women poets : memory and estrangement

Contemporary Irish women poets : memory and estrangement / Lucy Collins.

This study examines the intersection of private and public spheres through the representation of memory in contemporary poetry by Irish women. Collins 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...

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Main Author: Collins, Lucy, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2015.
Series:Liverpool English texts and studies ; 66.
Subjects:
English poetry > Irish authors > History and criticism.
English poetry > Women authors > History and criticism.
Literary Criticism > Poetry.
English poetry > Irish authors
English poetry > Women authors
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Memory, Estrangement and the Poetic Text; Part 1. 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; Part 2. 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.

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