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Medbh McGuckian (Hardcover)
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Medbh McGuckian (Hardcover)
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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. This book offers a wide-ranging analysis of the
entire corpus of Medbh McGuckian's published work. Its objective is
to provide both a readable synthesis of existing criticism, in a
fashion which will be generally useful to academics and students,
and also to offer an original contribution to the field of
contemporary Irish literary studies on the basis of new research.
The book investigates a variety of previously neglected themes, in
particular McGuckian's exploration of ideas of creativity and
performativity in her poetry. Over the past two decades McGuckian
has been recognized by both her fellow poets and by literary
critics as one of the most original, daring and important poetic
voices in contemporary Ireland. Since 1982 she has published
fifteen volumes of poetry, extraordinary not merely for its
sustained quality and linguistic and technical virtuosity, but also
for its constant evolution and reinvention. This book provides an
original perspective on her work both thematically and
methodologically. From a thematic perspective, the process of
artistic creation is a key preoccupation of McGuckian's poetry
which recurs in every volume of her oeuvre but has previously
escaped critical attention. By adapting and refining theories of
singularity and creativity, the book allows for a coherent analysis
of this central aspect of McGuckian's work. Methodologically it
differs from previous studies in the scope of its approach.
Uniquely, it pursues its investigation across the entire breadth of
the poet's published output and emphasizes the thematic unity of
individual volumes in the light of the poet's constant change and
development. Throughout the book, the reading of McGuckian's work
concentrates on poems in their entirety, an approach which has not
figured to any notable degree in the existing secondary literature
on the poet, not least because of the perceived difficulty of her
writing. A critical investigation, however, which respects both the
integrity of the individual poems and the internal coherence of her
various volumes allows for a far deeper understanding both of the
poet's thematic preoccupations and of the evolution of her
distinctive poetic voice.
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