Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Memory and Estrangement
Lucy Collins
Abstract
This book examines the intersection of private and public spheres through the representation of memory in contemporary poetry by Irish women. It explores how memory shapes creativity in the work of well-known poets such as Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Medbh McGuckian as well as in that of an exciting group of younger poets. Literary memory highlights the relationship between poet and reader, as well as the larger critical contexts that support or challenge the production of creative work. This book analyses, for the first time, the complex responses to the past recorded by contempo ... More
Keywords: Contemporary Irish Poetry, Irish Women Poets, Memory Studies, Irish Literary Tradition, Poetry and Poetics, Subjectivity in Poetry, Intertextuality in Poetry
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9781781381878 |
| Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: September 2016 | DOI:10.5949/liverpool/9781781381878.001.0001 |
