Contemporary Irish Women Poets
：Memory and Estrangement
( Liverpool English Texts and Studies )
Publication subTitle ：Memory and Estrangement
Publication series ：Liverpool English Texts and Studies
Publisher： Liverpool University Press
Publication year： 2015
E-ISBN: 9781781384695
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781781381878
Subject： I06 Literature, Literature Appreciation;I106.2 Poetry;I207.2 诗歌、韵文
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Description
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 in that of an exciting group of younger poets. This book analyses, for the first time, the complex responses to the past recorded by contemporary women poets in Ireland and the implications these have for the concept of a national tradition. The first study of contemporary Irish women poets to interrogate the relationship between private and public histories in a theoretically informed way. The first book to engage with both mainstream and avant-garde Irish women poets and to combine key figures—Eavan Boland and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin—with younger or less well-known poets such as Mairéad Byrne and Vona Groarke. It presents sustained readings of four important poets, together with integrated explorations of important themes and patterns in the work of contemporary Irish women poets: in this way it highlights the links between singular achievement and collective developments, which is a particularly valuable dynamic in the study of women writers. Original study of contemporary women poets in Ireland, presenting readings of four important poets (Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Mairéad Byrne and Vona Groarke) and exploring themes and patterns in contemporary Irish women’s poetry. Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Memory, Estrangement and the Poetic Text PART 1: CONCEPTS 1. Lost Lands: The Creation of Memory in the Poetry of Eavan Boland 2. Here and Elsewhere: Migrant Identities and the Contemporary 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 Bibliography General Index Index of Works There is a great deal to admire in this volume. Collins has a thorough knowledge of each of her poets’ work, and each chapter aims to deal with nearly the complete oeuvre of the writer at hand. The prose style is clear and concise. There are a wide range of critics and theorists mentioned throughout the text, and a number of topics are brought up in relation to the poetry. And Collins has a knack for choosing the right passage or poem to bring into play. The analysis is judiciously balanced and always insightful; the reader’s attention is consistently rewarded by what is found within these covers.
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