Jody Allen Randolph

Eavan Boland (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph providesthe fullest account yet of the work of a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature as well as in contemporary women's writing. Eavan Boland's achievement in changing the map of Irish poetry is tracked and analyzed from her first poems to the present. The book traces the evolution of that achievement, guiding the reader through Boland's early attachment to Yeats, her growing unease with the absence of women's writing, her encounter with pioneering American poets like Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, and Adrienne Rich, and her eventual, challenging amendments in poetry and prose to Ireland's poetic tradition. Using research from private papers the book also traces a time of upheaval and change in Ireland, exploring Boland's connection to Mary Robinson, in a chapter that details the nexus of a woman president and a woman poet in a country that was resistant to both. Finally, this book invites the reader to share a compelling perspective on the growth of a poet described by one critic as Ireland's "first great woman poet."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611485370
• Artikelnr.: 42282456

Autorenporträt

By Jody Allen Randolph

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One:
The Poetics of Origin Beginnings The Muse Mother Chapter Two: The Nexus of
Influence Claims of Belonging The Dour Line Chapter Three: From Patria to
Matria The First Draft In Her Own Image Night Feed Chapter Four: Out of
Myth into History The Journey Outside History The Telling of Stories
Chapter Five: Changing the Past In a Time of Violence Object Lessons The
Lost Land Chapter Six: Exiles in our Own Country Against Love Poetry
Domestic Violence Journeys and Maps Notes Bibliography Index