Title Limits and languages in contemporary Irish women's poetry / Daniela Theinová,

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 281 pages) Series New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature New directions in Irish and Irish American literature. Contents Introduction: uncertain identities -- Part 1. New lands for new words. Revolutionary laughter: Irish poets dismantling old icons and shibboleths -- Figures in a landscape: women on language, land and desire. -- Part 2. Secret scripts. The muse in question: tropes of inspiration revisited -- Poetry of silence: rhetorical concealment and the possibility of speech -- Kinds of between: the margin as mainspring -- Original in translation: poets between languages -- In and out of Ireland: new poets and new places -- Conclusion: feminism after poetry Summary Limits and Languages in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry examines the transactions between the two main languages of Irish literature, English and Irish, and their formative role in contemporary poetry by Irish women. Daniela Theinová explores the works of well-known poets such as Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Biddy Jenkinson and Medbh McGuckian, combining for the first time a critical analysis of the language issue with a focus on the historical marginality of women in the Irish literary tradition. Acutely alert to the textures of individual poems even as she reads these against broader critical-theoretical horizons, Theinová engages directly with texts in both Irish and English. By highlighting these writers' uneasy poetic and linguistic identity, and by introducing into this wider context some more recent poets--including Vona Groarke, Caitríona O'Reilly, Sinéad Morrissey, Ailbhe Darcy and Aifric Mac Aodha--this book proposes a fundamental critical reconsideration of major late-twentieth-century Irish women poets, and, by extension, the nation's canon Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Irish poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism English poetry -- Irish authors -- 21st century -- History and criticism English poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism Irish poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism Irish poetry English poetry -- Women authors English poetry -- Irish authors European literature Literature Literature, Modern Literature -- Philosophy Poetry Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9783030559540 3030559548

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