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Object Lessons (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Object Lessons (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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List price R448
Loot Price R365
Discovery Miles 3 650
You Save R83 (19%)
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'I have put this book together, not as a prose narrative is usually
constructed, but as a poem might be. In turnings and returnings. In
parts which find and repeat themselves and re-state the argument
until it loses its reasonable edge and hopefully becomes a sort of
cadence.' In "Object Lessons" Eavan Boland meditates on womanhood
in the specific places and times of her life. She engages, in a
scrupulous and evocative prose, the issues of nationhood as well,
clearing a space within Ireland where to be a woman and a poet has
seemed in the past a contradiction in terms. The book functions in
her work as Wordsworth's "Prelude" does in his, though Boland does
not allow herself the luxury of rapture: to say no more or less
than she means, she focuses on particulars, on 'obstinate details'
that contain and represent larger meaning, connection and force.
The autobiography here is not of a confessional kind: the facts
which connect with other voices, other lives, matter. What the
London Review of Books called Boland's 'radical but undoctrinaire
feminism' informs all the related meditations in "Object Lessons",
an enabling document of our time.Unease with Modernism, a concern
with the erotic in time, and at every point a sense of
continuities, mark the book as a portrait of a critical imagination
of deep integrity finding a way among history's obstacles, finding
itself in and through the lessons of the objects - particularly
artifacts and poems - that it encounters.
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