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001 2006281918
003 DLC
005 20130831074253.0
008 060829s2006 ie 001 0 eng d
010 $a 2006281918
020 $a0716533685 (cloth)
020 $a0716533693 (paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm70286410
040 $aVYF$cVYF$dBAKER$dDLC
042 $alccopycat
050 00 $aPR8771$b.B63 2006
245 04 $aThe body and desire in contemporary Irish poetry /$cedited by Irene Gilsenan Nordin.
260 $aDublin ;$aPortland, OR :$bIrish Academic Press,$c2006.
300 $aviii, 254 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPart I: The body politic: territorial reconfiguration and desire. Abject state: waste and the exile of the body in Northern Irish poetry / Scott Brewster. -- History's impasse: journey, haunt and trace in the poetry of Medbh McGuckian / Eluned Summers-Bremner. -- Thomas Kinsella's 'local knowledge' / Robert Brazeau. -- The body as ethical synecdoche in the writing of Seamus Heaney / Eugene O'Brien. -- Part II: The female body: women's sexual, maternal, ageing body and desire. 'Words we can grow old and die in': earth mother and ageing mother in Eavan Boland's poetry / Veronica House. -- 'My being cries out to be incarnate': the Virgin Mary and female sexuality in contemporary Irish women's poetry / Michaela Schrage-Früh. -- 'A song for every child I might have had': infertility and maternal loss in contemporary Irish poetry / Colleen A. Hynes. -- Part III: The existential body: the self and desire for the other. 'Like a wished-for body': dialogues of desire in the poetry of Medbh McGuckian / Elin Homsten. -- 'Enough / is enough': suffering and desire in the poetry of Thomas Kinsella / Lucy Collins. -- Medbh McGuckian and the poetics of mourning / Helen Blakeman. -- Touch and go: Seamus Heaney and the transcendence of the aesthetic / Charles I. Armstrong. -- 'Betwixt and between': the body as liminal threshold in the poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. / Irene Gilsenan Nordin.
650 0 $aEnglish poetry$xIrish authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aIrish poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aHuman body in literature.
650 0 $aDesire in literature.
600 10 $aKinsella, Thomas$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aHeaney, Seamus,$d1939-2013$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aMcGuckian, Medbh,$d1950-$xCriticism and interpretation.
700 1 $aNordin, Irene Gilsenan.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0703/2006281918.html