Medbh McGuckian [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465339903321
• Autore: Faragó Borbála
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, : Bucknell University Press, 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 p.)
• Collana: Contemporary Irish Writers
• Disciplina: 821.914; 821/.914
• Soggetti: McGuckian, Medbh, 1950- -- Criticism and interpretation; English; Languages & Literatures; English Literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: C O N T E N T S; A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S; A B B R E V I A T I O N S; I N T R O D U C T I O N; Chapter 1. Literary Performance in Medbh McGuckian's Early Volumes: The Flower Master, Venus and the Rain, On Ballycastle Beach, and Marconi's Cottage; Chapter 2. The Politicized Aesthetic in Captain Lavender, Shelmalier, and Drawing Ballerinas; Chapter 3. Death and Spirituality in The Face of the Earth, Had I a Thousand Lives, and The Book of the Angel; Chapter 4. Inward Journeys: The Currach Requires No Harbours, My Love Has Fared Inland, and The High Caul Cap; Chapter 5. Thematic Readings of Medbh McGuckian's WorkA F T E R W O R D : H O W T O E N D I T A L L; A W A R D S; B I B L I O G R A P H Y; I N D E X; A B O U T T H E A U T H O R
• Sommario/riassunto: This book offers a wide-ranging analysis of the entire corpus of Medbh McGuckian's published work. It provides both a readable synthesis of existing criticism, in a fashion which will be generally useful to academics and students, and also offers an original contribution to the field of contemporary Irish literary studies on the basis of new research.