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.
| ISBN: | 9783030559564 |
| Publication date: | 20th October 2021 |
| Author: | Daniela Theinová |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 281 pages |
| Series: | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Biography, Literature and Literary studies Literary studies: poetry and poets Literature: history and criticism Literary theory |
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.
Limits and Languages in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literature: history and criticism, Literary theory
Limits and Languages in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry is available in Paperback, Hardback
Limits and Languages in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry was written by Daniela Theinová and published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Limits and Languages in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry has 281 pages
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