Poetry of Silence: Rhetorical Concealment and the Possibility of Speech
This chapter illustrates how poetic subjectivity in feminist as well as post-feminist poetry is very much based on concealment. Theinová demonstrates how poets such as Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Caitríona O’Reilly and Vona Groarke construe silence not as a shor
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Limits and Languages in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry Daniela Theinová
New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature promotes fresh scholarship that explores models of Irish and Irish American identity and examines issues that address and shape the contours of Irishness and works that investigate the fluid, shifting, and sometimes multivalent discipline of Irish Studies. Politics, the academy, gender, and Irish and Irish American culture, among other things, have not only inspired but affected recent scholarship centered on Irish and Irish American literature. The series’s focus on Irish and Irish American literature and culture contributes to our twenty-first century understanding of Ireland, America, Irish Americans, and the creative, intellectual, and theoretical spaces between.
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Daniela Theinová
Limits and Languages in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry
Daniela Theinová Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Faculty of Arts Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
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