Overview
- Broadens the context in which poetry by women has mostly been discussed
- Contributes simultaneously to two fields, both Gaelic literary studies and anglophone Irish literary criticism
- Offers an overview of the merits and pitfalls of literary feminism, but also proposes vistas of a new canon
Part of the book series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature (NDIIAL)
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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.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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New Lands for New Words
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Secret Scripts
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Limits and Languages in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry
Authors: Daniela Theinová
Series Title: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55954-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55953-3Published: 19 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55956-4Published: 20 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55954-0Published: 18 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2731-3182
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3190
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 281
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Literature, general, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literary Theory