The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion

ISBN-13: 9783030532444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 284 str.

Tara Guissin-Stubbs

Spis treści

[Preface: What is a Sonnet?]

Introduction: The Modern Irish Sonnet

1. The Sonnet and the ‘Irish’ writer

2. Revision and Rebellion

Chapter 1: Art and Artifice

1.1 The Sonnet as Sonnet

1.2 Writing, Speaking, and ‘The Language Issue’

1.3 ‘Nothing beside remains’: architectural sonnets

1.4 The ‘sonnet houses’ of Richard Murphy’s The Price of Stone

1.5 ‘Hereness’ and ‘thisness’ in ekphrastic sonnets

1.6 Conclusion: art, artlessness, and artifice

Chapter 2: Sonnet Sequences

2.1 Seamus Heaney’s ‘District and Circle’ sonnet cycle

2.2 Harry Clifton’s Portobello Sonnets

2.3 Anthony Cronin’s The End of the Modern World

2.4 Conclusion: ‘psychic space’ and ‘slight returns’ in sequences from 

Cronin to Muldoon

Chapter 3: Conversation

3.1 Ciaran Carson, Edmund Spenser, and The Twelfth of Never

3.2 Mary O’Malley, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, and male voices

3.3 Ventriloquism: Paul Muldoon and Brendan Kennelly

3.4 Dialogue: Leontia Flynn and Paul Muldoon

3.5 Conclusion: speaking to others

Chapter 4: The Domestic

4.1 Noisy neighbours and uninvited guests

4.2 The domestic and the everyday

4.3 ‘Local rows’: the politics of the domestic

4.4 Conclusion: the familiar and the strange

Chapter 5: The Amatory Sonnet

5.1 My funny Valentine: intimacy and humour in the sonnets of Paula Meehan

5.2 The ‘passionate transitory’: Ciaran Carson’s For All We Know

5.3 Conclusion: desire, sex, and history

Conclusion

5.1 The Sonnet’s insufficiency

5.2 ‘In all the mayhem’: a chronology for the Modern Irish Sonnet?

O autorze

Tara Guissin-Stubbs is Associate Professor of English Literature at Oxford’s Department for Continuing Education, and the Dean of Kellogg College, Oxford University, UK. Her publications include American Literature and Irish Culture, 1910–1955: the politics of enchantment (2013) and, with Doug Haynes, Navigating the Transnational in Modern American Literature and Culture (2017).

Blurb

The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion discusses how and why the sonnet appeals to Irish poets and has grown in popularity over the last century. Using a thematic approach, Tara Guissin-Stubbs argues for the significance of the Irish sonnet as a discrete entity within modern and contemporary poetry, and shows how the Irish sonnet has become a debating chamber for discussions concerning the relationship between Irish and British culture, poetry and gender, and revision and rebellion. The text reshapes the poetic and critical field, exploring canonical and non-canonical poems by male and female poets so as to challenge outmoded views of the thematic and formal limitations of the sonnet.