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245 04 a| The body and desire in contemporary Irish poetry /c| edited by Irene Gilsenan Nordin.;

260 a| Dublin ;a| Portland, OR :b| Irish Academic Press,c| 2006.;

300 a| viii, 254 pages ;c| 23 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Part 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.;

600 10 a| Kinsella, Thomasx| Criticism and interpretation.=| ^A51940;

600 10 a| Heaney, Seamus,d| 1939-2013x| Criticism and interpretation.=| ^A373603;

600 10 a| McGuckian, Medbh,d| 1950-x| Criticism and interpretation.=| ^A239631;

650 0 a| Human body in literature.=| ^A133780;

650 0 a| Desire in literature.=| ^A131873;

650 0 a| Irish poetryx| History and criticism.=| ^A290773;

650 0 a| English poetryx| Irish authorsx| History and criticism.=| ^A80514;

700 1 a| Nordin, Irene Gilsenan.=| ^A695288;

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The body and desire in contemporary Irish poetry / edited by Irene Gilsenan Nordin.

Other author	Nordin, Irene Gilsenan.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Dublin ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press, 2006.
Description	viii, 254 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects	Kinsella, Thomas--Criticism and interpretation. Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013--Criticism and interpretation. McGuckian, Medbh, 1950---Criticism and interpretation. Human body in literature. Desire in literature. Irish poetry--History and criticism. English poetry--Irish authors. --History and criticism.

Contents	Part 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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN	0716533685 (cloth)
ISBN	0716533693 (paper)

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