Limits and Languages in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry

ISBN-13: 9783030559564 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 296 str.

Daniela Theinova

Spis treści

Introduction: Uncertain Identities                                                                  00

Women on the Margin                                                                                       00

Women and Languages                                                                                     00

 

Part I

NEW LANDS FOR NEW WORDS                                                                                        00

2          Revolutionary Laughter: Irish Poets Dismantling Old Icons

and Shibboleths                                                                                                00

Irish Mothers: Eavan Boland and Vona Groarke                                                 00

Chilling Apparitions: Biddy Jenkinson and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill            00

 

3          Figures in a Landscape: Women on Language, Land and Desire                    00

Ironic Inversions: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Medbh McGuckian                         00

Shifting Soil: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Eavan Boland                                      00

 

Part II

SECRET SCRIPTS                                                                                                     00

4           The Muse in Question: Tropes of Inspiration Revisited                                  00

Radical Reticence: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Paula Meehan                              00

All Is Muse: Medbh McGuckian and Biddy Jenkinson                                        00

 

5          Poetry of Silence: Rhetorical Concealment and the Possibility of Speech        00

Sounding Gestures: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Caitríona O’Reilly                       00

Thinning the Muse: Caitríona O’Reilly and Vona Groarke                                   00

 

6          Kinds of Between: The Margin as a Mainspring                                             00

Woman at a Window: Eavan Boland and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin             00

Ghosts and Bodies: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Medbh McGuckian

and Vona Groarke                                                                                             00

 

            7          Original in Translation: Poets between Languages                              00

Irish as the Source and Target: Aifric Mac Aodha                                               00

Reinventing the Language: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Medbh McGuckian,

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Eavan Boland                                                          00

 

            8          In and Out of Ireland: New Poets and New Places                                          00

Words as Things Worth Knowing: Sinéad Morrissey                                          00

Translating Home: Ailbhe Darcy                                                            00

 

9          Conclusion: Feminism after Poetry                                                                 00

 

O autorze

Daniela Theinová is Senior Lecturer in the English Department and a member of the Centre for Irish Studies at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. She has contributed to Post-Ireland? Essays on Contemporary Irish Poetry (2017) and A History of Irish Women’s Poetry (2020). Her translations include poetry by Vona Groarke, Caitríona O’Reilly, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Aifric Mac Aodha. 

Blurb

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.