Politic Words: Writing Women Writing History

ISBN-13: 9781803742595 / Angielski

Eamon Maher; Gerald Dawe

Opis

Politic Words reflects five decades of Gerald Dawe writing about and discussing Irish literature, both inside the university classroom and in various literary and academic forums.

Recenzje

Politic Words is an invigorating mix of the personal, the political and the poetic. Gerry Dawe flings his net wide. From Eavan Boland's "secret history" of women to war memoirist Christabel Bielenberg's luminous prose; from the vaulting ambition of Éilís Dillon's historical fiction to hunger striker's Bobby Sands' favourite poet, the now unsung Ethna Carbery, he takes us on a bracing journey from the Troubles to Brexit. Drawing on contemporaneous criticism, Dawe revitalizes 35 years of cultural history into urgent news from the literary front. Mary Morrissy

Spis treści

Contents: In the Wars: Edna Longley - Suburban Night: Eavan Boland - Exchanging Messages: Christabel Bielenberg - Ethna Carbery in H Block - Burned Countryside: Eavan Boland and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - Bash , the River Moy and the Superser: Dorothy Molloy, Michelle O'Sullivan and Leontia Flynn - Native City: Geraldine Quigley and Lucy Caldwell - Lost and Found: Ethna MacCarthy - Politic Words: Eilís Dillon - Poor Scholar: Benedict Kiely - Carleton's Address - A Real Life Elsewhere: Thomas Murphy and Thomas Kilroy - Post- colonial Confusions - A Bridge Too Far: Fintan O'Toole's Brexit - A Nation Once Again? - Personal Epilogue.

O autorze

Gerald Dawe taught literature and drama for forty years in universities in Ireland and the US. He is Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin. He has published over twenty books of poetry and non-fiction since his first collection Sheltering Places appeared in 1978. He has given readings and lectures in many parts of the world. He lives in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin.