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 |