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Constitutions of Self in Contemporary Irish Poetry: 'Into the Light'

Constitutions of Self in Contemporary Irish Poetry: 'Into the Light'

Hardcover

Series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismBritish History

ISBN10: 3030989453
ISBN13: 9783030989453
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 23 2022
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Constitutions of Self in Contemporary Irish Poetry explores the figure of the lyrical self in the work of six contemporary Irish poets: Paul Muldoon, Vona Groarke, Sinéad Morrissey, Caitríona O'Reilly, Alan Gillis and Nick Laird. By focusing on the self, this study offers the first sustained exploration of what is arguably one of the most distinctive features of Irish poetry. Readings utilise the latest theories of the lyric filtered through the work of such philosophers as Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Slavoj Zizek, Giorgio Agamben and Zygmunt Bauman, and connect an interdisciplinary approach with attention to the operations of the poetic text to bring out aspects of the self in Irish writing that have been given only cursory critical attention so far.

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