Overview
- Explores the figure of the lyrical self in the work of six contemporary Irish poets
- Offers the first sustained exploration of one of the most distinctive features of Irish poetry
- Brings out aspects of the self in Irish writing that have been given limited critical attention
Part of the book series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature (NDIIAL)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Constitutions of Self in Contemporary Irish Poetry explores the figure of the lyrical self in the work of six contemporary Irish poets: Paul Muldoon, Vona Groarke, Sinéad Morrissey, Caitríona O’Reilly, Alan Gillis and Nick Laird. By focusing on the self, this study offers the first sustained exploration of what is arguably one of the most distinctive features of Irish poetry. Readings utilise the latest theories of the lyric filtered through the work of such philosophers as Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Slavoj Žižek, Giorgio Agamben and Zygmunt Bauman, and connect an interdisciplinary approach with attention to the operations of the poetic text to bring out aspects of the self in Irish writing that have been given only cursory critical attention so far.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Wit Pietrzak is a Professor of British and Irish Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Łódź, Poland. His main areas of interest are modernist and contemporary Anglophone poetry as well as theory and philosophy of literature. He has published The Critical Thought of W. B. Yeats (2017), and numerous essays on contemporary British and Irish poetry.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Constitutions of Self in Contemporary Irish Poetry
Book Subtitle: ‘Into the Light’
Authors: Wit Pietrzak
Series Title: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98946-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98945-3Published: 23 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98948-4Published: 23 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-98946-0Published: 22 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-3182
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3190
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 148
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Contemporary Literature, History of Britain and Ireland