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Author Collins, Lucy, 1967- author.

Title Contemporary Irish women poets : memory and estrangement / Lucy Collins
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Liverpool English texts and studies ; 66
Liverpool English texts and studies ; 66.
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 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
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, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Medbh McGuckian as well as in that of an exciting group of younger poets
Notes Previously issued in print: 2015
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
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Online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 3, 2016)
Subject English poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism
English poetry -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
Literary studies: poetry & poets.
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
English poetry -- Irish authors.
English poetry -- Women authors.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781781382271
1781382271
9781781384695
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9781781381878
1781381879