From Landscapes to Cityscapes: Towards a Poetics of Dwelling in Modern Irish Verse

ISBN-13: 9781800798700 / Angielski

Eamon Maher; Marjan Shokouhi

Opis

Focuses on the works of three major Irish poets, William Butler Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh and Louis MacNeice and contests the often politicized and historicist boundaries set for defining Irishness and arguing for a recognition of new voices and marginal identities.

Recenzje

Marjan Shokouhi's new book From Landscapes to Cityscapes attests to the ways in which Irish ecocritical scholarship has developed into more than a simple "subfield" of Irish Studies. Shokouhi takes readers on a fascinating journey through the work of three iconic Irish poets in the modern period - Yeats, Kavanagh and MacNeice - from the burgeoning perspective of Irish ecological criticism, exhibiting the complexities of the Irish Literary Revival in addressing questions of place and identity and opening new avenues of research in relation to new voices and marginal identities. Pilar Villar-Argáiz University of Granada, Spain From wild ancient forests to the Lagan riverside, From Landscapes to Cityscapes offers a new take on the sense of place in modern Irish poetry. Using Heidegger's concept of dwelling, it examines the verse of Yeats, Kavanagh and Macneice from an ecocritical perspective in a worthy contribution to the field. Audrey Robitaillié Lecturer in Anglophone Literature and Irish Studies

Spis treści

Contents: Wilderness Narratives: De- spirited Forests, Deforested Landscapes - The Land/ Mindscape of Yeats's Ireland - Countryside Narratives: Rural Ireland in Irish Revival Literature - Towards a Poetics of Dwelling: Patrick Kavanagh and the Countryside - City Narratives: An Urban Sense of Place in Modern Irish Literature - Patrick Kavanagh in Dublin: The Irish Flâneur and the Big City - Louis MacNeice's North: The 'Incorrigibly Plural' Sense of Place in Modern Irish Poetry.

O autorze

Marjan Shokouhi completed her doctoral studies at the University of Sunderland and is currently a faculty member at the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Granada, Spain. Her interests include Irish Studies, modern poetry, world literature and creative writing.