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Post-Ireland? [electronic resource] : Essays on Contemporary Irish Poetry

Authors, Various2019
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The work of certain members of the younger generation of Irish poets contains what might be termed a post-national, trans-historical urge, or at least a post-Ireland one. The essays in After Ireland, written by established and emerging scholars, recognize both the perpetual search for a sustaining national concept of Ireland, as well as a sense that long-established definitions no longer necessarily apply. The poets discussed herein include those who write in the shadow of Irish history cast by the Northern Troubles and those who feel that connections to a wider culture (poetic and political) are equally, or more, significant. Migration (immigration and emigration, internal and external) continues to be an issue. If Ireland is post-nation, does it look toward Europe? America? Boston or Belgium? As Irish society has changed and continues to change, so too has Irish poetry entered into a time of transition. This volume of essays charts these transitions and sets coordinates for future critical endeavors.
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Wake Forest University Press, 2019
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
ISBN:
9781943666294
Language:
English
BRN:
2576066
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