Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Memory and Estrangement

Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Memory and Estrangement
ISBN-10
1781381879
ISBN-13
9781781381878
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
248
Language
English
Published
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Lucy Collins

Description

In twentieth-century Ireland the relationship between the personal past and narrative history has exerted a shaping force on the lives of individual writers and on the formation of literary communities. This study explores this important intersection of the personal and the political, and its aesthetic consequences, in individual poems and volumes by contemporary Irish women. Collins argues for the central importance of memory in the work of contemporary Irish women poets such as Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Eavan Boland and Medbh McGuckian, and for its significant role in their creative development and critical reception.

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