Hiroko Ikeda

Sweeney's Revival (eBook, ePUB)

Translating and transcending the liminal

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This study aims to uncover the traces of the celebrated Sweeney legend in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish writers such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Austin Clarke, Derek Mahon, Tom Mac Intyre, Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel, Dermot Bolger, Paula Meehan, and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. The tale, known in Irish as Buile Suibhne, captivates with its intricate layers of liminality. Liminality, the state of existing on the boundary, the border, the threshold, serves as the key to bringing these writers together. This liminal state is marked by the promise of a drastic shift, a metamorphosis of being. The legend's profound impact on literary creations bears witness to the contemplation of liminality lying at the heart of the Irish imagination. Close textual readings bring to light the significance of Sweeney's Revival, which reverberates with far-reaching and enduring resonance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781803744315
• Artikelnr.: 72291953

Autorenporträt

Hiroko Ikeda is Professor in the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. She coedited Irish Literature in the British Context and Beyond: New Perspectives from Kyoto (2020), which includes her essay 'Beyond being Irish or Celtic: The Double Vision of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's «Cailleach/Hag» in Feis'.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Sweeney, W. B. Yeats, and James Joyce
Double Visions: Austin Clarke's 'The Frenzy of Suibhne'
'The black earth my earth
bed': Derek Mahon's The Snow Party
'A soul journey': Tom Mac Intyre's 'Sweeney among the Branches'
Reviving and Revived: Seamus Heaney's Sweeney Astray
Resisting Authority: Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney
Mother to be Grafted: Dermot Bolger's A Second Life
Revolutionizing Vulnerable Birds: Paula Meehan's Mrs Sweeney
Sweeney and Cailleach: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's 'Muirghil ag Cáiseamh Shuibhne [Muirghil Castigates Sweeney]'.