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The body and desire in contemporary Irish poetry
- Title
- The body and desire in contemporary Irish poetry / edited by Irene Gilsenan Nordin.
- Publication
- Dublin ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press, 2006.
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- Additional Authors
- Nordin, Irene Gilsenan.
- Description
- viii, 254 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Part I: The body politic: territorial reconfiguration and desire. Abject state: waste and the exile of the body in Northern Irish poetry / Scott Brewster. -- History's impasse: journey, haunt and trace in the poetry of Medbh McGuckian / Eluned Summers-Bremner. -- Thomas Kinsella's 'local knowledge' / Robert Brazeau. -- The body as ethical synecdoche in the writing of Seamus Heaney / Eugene O'Brien. -- Part II: The female body: women's sexual, maternal, ageing body and desire. 'Words we can grow old and die in': earth mother and ageing mother in Eavan Boland's poetry / Veronica House. -- 'My being cries out to be incarnate': the Virgin Mary and female sexuality in contemporary Irish women's poetry / Michaela Schrage-Früh. -- 'A song for every child I might have had': infertility and maternal loss in contemporary Irish poetry / Colleen A. Hynes. -- Part III: The existential body: the self and desire for the other. 'Like a wished-for body': dialogues of desire in the poetry of Medbh McGuckian / Elin Homsten. -- 'Enough / is enough': suffering and desire in the poetry of Thomas Kinsella / Lucy Collins. -- Medbh McGuckian and the poetics of mourning / Helen Blakeman. -- Touch and go: Seamus Heaney and the transcendence of the aesthetic / Charles I. Armstrong. -- 'Betwixt and between': the body as liminal threshold in the poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. / Irene Gilsenan Nordin.
- Call Number
- JFE 06-10030
- ISBN
- 0716533685 (cloth)
- 0716533693 (paper)
- OCLC
- 70286410
- Title
- The body and desire in contemporary Irish poetry / edited by Irene Gilsenan Nordin.
- Imprint
- Dublin ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press, 2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Nordin, Irene Gilsenan.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-10030