Borbala Farago

Medbh McGuckian

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This wide-ranging study of one of the most innovative, daring, and important poetic voices in contemporary Ireland analyzes Mebdh McGuckianâ s entire corpus, offering both an original contribution to the field of contemporary Irish literary studies and a readable synthesis of existing criticism that will be useful to academics and students.

Produktdetails

• Contemporary Irish Writers
• Verlag: Bucknell University Press, U.S.
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9781684485499
• ISBN-10: 1684485495
• Artikelnr.: 70450838

Autorenporträt

BORBÁLA FARAGÓ is a lecturer at Central European University in Vienna, Austria, and coeditor of five volumes, most recently Times of Mobility: Transnational Literature and Gender in Translation.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Literary Performance in Medbh McGuckian’s Early Volumes: The Flower
Master, Venus and the Rain, On Ballycastle Beach, and Marconi’s Cottage
2. The Politicized Aesthetic in Captain Lavender, Shelmalier, and Drawing
Ballerinas
 
3. Death and Spirituality in The Face of the Earth, Had I a Thousand Lives,
and The Book of the Angel
4. Inward Journeys: The Currage Requires No Harbour, My Love Has Fared
Inland, and The High Caul Cap
5. Thematic Readings of Medbh McGuckian’s Work
Afterword: How to End It All
Awards
Bibliography
Index