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Record Nr.

UNINA9910767582503321

Autore

Pietrzak Wit

Titolo

Constitutions of self in contemporary Irish poetry : 'into the light' / / Wit Pietrzak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9783030989460

9783030989453

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 pages)

Collana

New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature

Disciplina

929.374

Soggetti

English poetry - Irish authors

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 The Figure of the Self in Contemporary Irish Poetry -- Notes -- 2 Between Detection and Deception: Paul Muldoon's Why Brownlee Left -- Notes -- 3 The Self as Potentiality in Vona Groarke's Four Sides Full and X -- Stability and Dissolution in Architectural Poems -- The Garden as Emergent Ground -- Potentiality in Visual Arts -- Notes -- 4 'Lady Other, Lady Mine': Angles of Vision and the Materialist Self in Sinéad Morrissey's Parallax -- Doubling the Perspective -- Donning Masks -- Poetry and Photography -- Notes -- 5 The Enduring Self: Caitríona O'Reilly's Geis -- Notes -- 6 'Flurred and Flummoxed but Unbleared': Revivification of the Self in Alan Gillis's Scapegoat -- Notes -- 7 From Liquid Fear to Dull Love: Nick Laird's Go Giants -- Subject in Language -- Liquid Anxieties I: Death and Faith -- Liquid Anxieties II: Love and Loneliness -- Liquid Anxieties III: 'Progress' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.