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Contemporary Irish Women Poets Some Male Perspectives
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Alexander G. Gonzalez
Book Code: GM0916
ISBN: 0-313-30916-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30916-8
208 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 9/30/1999
List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions in Women's Studies
Series Number: 174
Reviews:
  • Contemporary Irish Women Poets will be a welcome addition to the fray....Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Some Male Perspectives is a worthy contribution to a critical discussion deserving more book-length studies....Alexander Gonzalez's thought-provoking collection of essays is valuable not only because it offers fresh critical perspectives, but also because it will undoubtedly draw more readers to some of the most original and exciting poets of our time.
    —Women's Studies
  • This book makes an enormous contribution to the understanding of gener-neutral literature.
    —Council on National Literatures
Description: Women poets have made substantial contributions to Irish literature, particularly in the last few decades. However, so many male critics have attacked Ireland's women poets, whether through hostile reviews, outright silence, or condescending praise, that the impression has been created that very few men appreciate these women's poetry. With some notable exceptions, most academic appraisals by men have been less than enthusiastic. Many women also point to the treatment these poets receive in various anthologies, which typically include only token portions of literature written by women. In his book, Gonzalez has responded to these slights by offering a forum to a significant number of men to express their highest praise for Ireland's women poets. Until now, no book has ever appeared in Irish studies in which men make it a point to praise literature written by Irish women. In this book, Gonzalez includes two essays on each of Ireland's best-known women poets, Eavan Boland, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, and Medbh McGuckian. Three other essays are the first formal scholarly pieces entirely dedicated to Paula Meehan, Rita Ann Higgins, or Mary O'Malley. In his pioneering effort, Gonzalez helps establish the place of these contemporary women poets in the Irish literary canon, corrects the popular misconception that male critics are unresponsive to their works, and encourages further exploration of Irish women poets by male scholars and critics.
Table of Contents:
  • In from the Margin: Eavan Boland's "Outside History" Sequence, by Thomas C. Foster
  • Bringing It All Back Home: Unity and Meaning in Eavan Boland's "Domestic Interior" Sequence, by Peter Kupillas
  • "I'll Have to Stop Thinking about Sex": Rita Ann Higgins and the Patriarchal Tradition, by John Hildebidle
  • Celebrating the Richness of Medbh McGuckian's Poetry: Close Analysis of Six Poems from The Flower Master, by Alexander G. Gonzalez
  • Medbh McGuckian's Poetry Inhabiting the Image, by Charles L. O'Neill
  • Battle Dressed to Survive: The Poetry of Paula Meehan, by Bernard McKenna
  • How She Looks in That Company: Eilean Ni Chuilleanain as Feminist Poet, by Paul S. Stanfield
  • Sites of Ambush: Eilean Ni Chuilleanain's Bordered Silences, by Kevin Ray
  • Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's Poems: An Appreciation by Jim McWilliams
  • Representing Sublimity: Body as Paradox in the Work of Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, by Frank C. Manista
  • "Such Delvings and Exhumations": The Quest for Self-Actualization in Mary O'Malley's Poetry, by Bernard McKenna
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 98-55346
LCC Class: PR8733
Dewey Class: 821
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