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Author : Medbh McGuckian
Publisher : Gallery Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Flower Master and Other Poems written by Medbh McGuckian and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated, 1993 edition from one of Ireland's finest woman poets
Author : Medbh McGuckian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781930630758
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Unfixed Horizon written by Medbh McGuckian and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unfixed Horizon: New Selected Poems traces Medbh McGuckian's remarkable trajectory through fourteen volumes published between 1982 and 2013, amply displaying her bewitching, opulent imagination. A comprehensive introduction by editors Borbála Faragó and Michaela Schrage-Früh offers a valuable overview and rare insight into the work and the myriad influences--both private and public--of this mysterious poet. Their selection perceptively charts the history through which the poet has lived. McGuckian's early poems, the editors point out, view Belfast's sectarian violence through the lens of the female body and domestic imagery, while her political engagement later becomes more direct. McGuckian's poems are "firmly rooted in Northern Irish soil," yet encompass a world of interests erotic and maternal, spiritual and sensuous, private and political. Readers open to her enigmatic syntactical structures, wide-angled metaphors, and metamorphic images multiplying in dream-like fashion will be richly rewarded.
Author : S. Schwerter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137271728
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Northern Irish Poetry and the Russian Turn written by S. Schwerter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian are the three most influential poets from Northern Ireland who have composed poems with a link to the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union. Through their references to Russia the three poets achieve a geographical and mental detachment allowing them to turn a fresh eye on the Northern Irish situation.
Author : Richard Bradford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119652642
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)
Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature written by Richard Bradford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANION TO CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE An insightful guide to the exploration of modern British and Irish literature The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature is a must-have guide for anyone hoping to navigate the world of new British and Irish writing. Including modern authors and poets from the 1960s through to the 21st century, the Companion provides a thorough overview of contemporary poetry, fiction, and drama by some of the most prominent and noteworthy writers. Seventy-three comprehensive chapters focus on individual authors as well as such topics as Englishness and identity, contemporary Science Fiction, Black writing in Britain, crime fiction, and the influence of globalization on British and Irish Literature. Written in four parts, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature includes comprehensive examinations of individual authors, as well as a variety of themes that have come to define the contemporary period: ethnicity, gender, nationality, and more. A thorough guide to the main figures and concepts in contemporary literature from Britain and Ireland, this two-volume set: Includes studies of notable figures such as Seamus Heaney and Angela Carter, as well as more recently influential writers such as Zadie Smith and Sarah Waters. Covers topics such as LGBT fiction, androgyny in contemporary British Literature, and post-Troubles Northern Irish Fiction Features a broad range of writers and topics covered by distinguished academics Includes an analysis of the interplay between individual authors and the major themes of the day, and whether an examination of the latter enables us to appreciate the former. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature provides essential reading for students as well as academics seeking to learn more about the history and future direction of contemporary British and Irish Literature.
Author : Medbh McGuckian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781930630659
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The High Caul Cap written by Medbh McGuckian and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The High Caul Cap is both the name of a traditional Irish air and a symbol for the link remaining after birth between mother and child. The caul was superstitiously regarded as a good omen and so kept at the hearth as a preservative against drowning. This symbolic gesture helps us to fathom the watery imagery in this volume, which traces the decline and death of the poet's mother. Medbh McGuckian's writing is always profoundly sensual, but now, with the maternal body at stake in its meditations, the physical takes on supernatural powers. Poetry relies on the senses for proof, much as the doubter relies on touch to be convinced of the miraculous. Mother-daughter relationships move down the generations ("I discover a photograph / of my beautiful sculpted daughter" from "Corner of Field with Farm") trying to establish the exact nature of their love. As in many of McGuckian's books, blue is a sacred color (of the Madonna, the sea, the sky) and saints and angels appear throughout the volume as though to remind us of how the masters used such icons to transform their myths into art. McGuckian uses these icons to grieve for, interrogate, and transform into poetry her late mother's "tangible gaze."
Author : Medbh McGuckian
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book On Ballycastle Beach written by Medbh McGuckian and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Medbh McGuckian
Publisher : Gallery Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Venus and the Rain written by Medbh McGuckian and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Medbh McGuckian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781930630345
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Currach Requires No Harbours written by Medbh McGuckian and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Medbh McGuckian unfolds a beautiful array of themes--art, religion, landscape, nation, home--that will be as seductive to initiates as they are glowingly familiar to lovers of her work. We start with sensual understanding ("the form of feeling"), move among the various arenas of experience (sexuality, work, marriage), women's sensations in particular, and even more specifically the religious passions of women, and consider their lives on islands both symbolic and real, islands with which McGuckian has often signaled the existence of the individual, as well as Ireland's place in the larger world. The poems cast an hypnotic spell that grows until, in the deep acknowledgement of human suffering, the reader becomes a "picturesque believer" in "saints that have the gift of dreaming right" ("Galilee Porch"). The source of such visionary belief is in perception itself. Like the currach of its title, her style moves fleetly across its contents, requiring no particular harbors because all harbors, and subjects, are its own.
Author : Jonathan Hufstader
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813189624
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Tongue of Water, Teeth of Stones written by Jonathan Hufstader and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a 1984 lecture on poetry and political violence, Seamus Heaney remarked that "the idea of poetry was itself that higher ideal to which the poets had unconsciously turned in order to survive the demeaning conditions." Jonathan Hufstader examines the work of Heaney and his contemporaries to discover how poems, combining conscious technique with unconscious impulse, work as aesthetic forms and as strategies for emotional survival. In his powerful study, Hufstader shows how a number of contemporary Northern Irish poets, including Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, Tom Paulin, Ciarán Carson and Medbh McGuckian, explore the resources of language and poetic form in their various responses to cultural conflict and political violence. Focusing on both style and social contexts, Hufstader explores the tension between solidarity and art, between the poet's need to belong and to rebel. He believes that an understanding of the power of lyric points towards an understanding of the source of social violence, and of its cessation.
Author : Lucy Collins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781381879
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Irish Women Poets written by Lucy Collins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In twentieth-century Ireland the relationship between the personal past and narrative history has exerted a shaping force on the lives of individual writers and on the formation of literary communities. This study explores this important intersection of the personal and the political, and its aesthetic consequences, in individual poems and volumes by contemporary Irish women. Collins argues for the central importance of memory in the work of contemporary Irish women poets such as Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Eavan Boland and Medbh McGuckian, and for its significant role in their creative development and critical reception.
Author : Borbála Faragó
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611485649
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Medbh McGuckian written by Borbála Faragó and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a wide-ranging analysis of the entire corpus of Medbh McGuckian’s published work. Its objective is to provide both a readable synthesis of existing criticism, in a fashion which will be generally useful to academics and students, and also to offer an original contribution to the field of contemporary Irish literary studies on the basis of new research. The book investigatesa variety of previously neglected themes, in particular McGuckian’s exploration of ideas of creativity and performativity in her poetry. Over the past two decades McGuckian has been recognized by both her fellow poets and by literary critics as one of the most original, daring and important poetic voices in contemporary Ireland. Since 1982 she has published fifteen volumes of poetry, extraordinary not merely for its sustained quality and linguistic and technical virtuosity, but also for its constant evolution and reinvention. This book provides an original perspective on her work both thematically and methodologically. From a thematic perspective, the process of artistic creation is a key preoccupation of McGuckian’s poetry which recurs in every volume of her oeuvre but has previously escaped critical attention. By adapting and refining theories of singularity and creativity, the book allows for a coherent analysis of this central aspect of McGuckian’s work. Methodologically it differs from previous studies in the scope of its approach. Uniquely, it pursues its investigation across the entire breadth of the poet’s published output and emphasizes the thematic unity of individual volumes in the light of the poet’s constant change and development. Throughout the book, the reading of McGuckian’s work concentrates on poems in their entirety, an approach which has not figured to any notable degree in the existing secondary literature on the poet, not least because of the perceived difficulty of her writing. A critical investigation, however, which respects both the integrity of the individual poems and the internal coherence of her various volumes allows for a far deeper understanding both of the poet’s thematic preoccupations and of the evolution of her distinctive poetic voice.
Author : Medbh McGuckian
Publisher : Gallery Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Drawing Ballerinas written by Medbh McGuckian and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Drawing Ballerinas Medbh McGuckian brings her radical art to bear on the long drawn-out process of change in the North of Ireland while she tries to comprehend some of the backward and forward steps and the many sacrifices and tragic gestures involved in achieving a settled state. As ever, her work is shaded with an erotic charge as it dramatizes her responses to the H-Block, the ceasefires, questions of decommissioning, and the inter-connections of landscape and language.
Author : Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793607079
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Silence and Articulacy in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian written by Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silence and Articulacy in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian is an innovative contribution to the scholarship on Belfast poet, Medbh McGuckian. This book considers the entire oeuvre of this globally respected Irish woman writer, a member of the contemporary avant-garde with now fifteen (U.S. published) volumes and numerous individual publications. The author positions McGuckian’s oeuvre as political and historical poetry and offers a provocative new assessment of its crafted silences. This work argues that it is the muted character of McGuckian’s poems—a consequence of a defamiliarized language, the overwhelming sway of the image, and a profusion of intertextual quoting—that constitutes their agency and force. The silences are read as a response to the precarious positionality of poet and speaker at the site of “disaster” and the limits of articulacy. In line with Rukeyser’s notion of the life of poetry, the life of McGuckian's silences is located, Fadem argues, in the poems’ production, as revealed self-reflexively, and in their prolonged consumption. This oeuvre operates as a formidable counter-discourse by converting poetry's reception into a much protracted task that redistributes the temporal economy of poem and reader and disrupts the given structures of time, place, and the order of things.
Author : Adam Hanna
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137493704
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Northern Irish Poetry and Domestic Space written by Adam Hanna and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northern Irish Poetry and Domestic Space explores why houses, in some ways the most private of spaces, have taken up such visibly public positions in the work of a range of prominent poets from Northern Ireland, examining the work of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon and Medbh McGuckian.
Author : Michael Kenneally
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780861403103
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature written by Michael Kenneally and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of four collections of essays intended to be published under the general title Studies in Contemporary Irish Literature (only two were) which are devoted to critical analysis of Irish writing since the 1950s.
Author : Medbh McGuckian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781930630482
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book My Love Has Fared Inland written by Medbh McGuckian and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Love Has Fared Inland, as Borbala Farago writes in the Irish University Review, is "like a black hole: it reveals its inner core through interaction with its readers. And once they get too close, they might as well let it take them in." --Book Jacket.
Author : Amy Schrager Lang
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813537177
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book What Democracy Looks Like written by Amy Schrager Lang and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The convergence of activists in Seattle during the World Trade Organization meetings captured the headlines in 1999. These demonstrations marked the first major expression on U.S. soil of worldwide opposition to inequality, privatization, and political and intellectual repression. This turning point in world politics coincided with an ongoing quandary in academia-particularly in the humanities where the so-called "death of theory" has left the field on tenuous footing. In What Democracy Looks Like, the editors and twenty-seven contributors argue that these crises-in the world and the academy-are not unrelated. The essays insist that, in the wake of "Seattle," teachers and scholars of American literature and culture are faced with the challenge of addressing new points of intersection between American studies and literary studies. The narrative, the poem, the essay, and the drama need to be reexamined in ways that are relevant to the urgent social and political issues of our time. Collectively urging scholars and educators to pay fresh attention to the material conditions out of which literature arises, this path-breaking book inaugurates a new critical realism in American literary studies. It provides a crucial link in the growing need to merge theory and practice with the goal of reconnecting the ivory tower elite to the activists on the street.
