Eavan Boland.

"In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph provides the 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...

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Main Author: Randolph, Jody Allen
Corporate Author: Bucknell University Press
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Lewisburg, PA] : Bucknell University Press, [2014]
Series:Contemporary Irish writers (Lewisburg, Pa.)
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The poetics of origin. Beginnings; The muse mother
  • The nexus of influence. Claims of belonging; The dour line
  • From patria to matria. The first draft; In her own image; Night feed
  • Out of myth into history. The journey; Outside history; The telling of stories
  • Changing the past. A time of violence; Object lessons; The lost land
  • Exiles in our own country. Against love poetry; Domestic violence; Journeys and maps.