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The book offers the first comprehensive study of Paul Muldoon's
mourning verse. Considering not only the celebrated elegies like
"Yarrow," "Incantata" or "Sillyhow Stride" but also the elegiac
impulse as it develops throughout Muldoon's entire work, All Will
Be Swept Away charts a large swathe of Muldoon's poetic landscape
in order to show the complexity with which he approaches the themes
of death and mourning. Using archival material as well as a vast
array of theoretical apparatuses, the book unveils the
psychological, literary and political undertones in his poetry, all
the while attending to the operations of the poetic text: its form,
its music and its capacity to console, warn and censure.
This book focuses on W. B. Yeats's critical writings, an aspect of
his oeuvre which has been given limited treatment so far. It traces
his critical work from his earliest articles, through to his occult
treatises, and all the way to his last pamphlets, in which he
sought to delineate the idea of a literary culture: a community of
people willing to credit poetry with the central role in imagining
and organising social praxis throughout society. The chapters of
this study investigate the contexts in which Yeats's thought
developed, his many disputes over the shape of Irish cultural
politics, the future of poetry and the place literature occupies in
the world. What transpires is an image of Yeats who is strung
between the impulses of faith in the existence of a supernatural
order and ironic scepticism as to the possibility of ever capturing
that order in language. This study is distinguished by its
grounding of Yeats's critical agenda in a broader context through
textual analysis. In addition, it organises and systematises his
conceptions of poetry and its social role through its approach to
his criticism as a fully-fledged area of his artistic practice. The
monograph has been written within the framework of the project
financed by The National Science Centre, Cracow, Poland, pursuant
to the decision number DEC-2013/09/D/HS2/02782.
Constitutions of Self in Contemporary Irish Poetry explores the
figure of the lyrical self in the work of six contemporary Irish
poets: Paul Muldoon, Vona Groarke, Sinead Morrissey, Caitriona
O'Reilly, Alan Gillis and Nick Laird. By focusing on the self, this
study offers the first sustained exploration of what is arguably
one of the most distinctive features of Irish poetry. Readings
utilise the latest theories of the lyric filtered through the work
of such philosophers as Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Slavoj Zizek,
Giorgio Agamben and Zygmunt Bauman, and connect an
interdisciplinary approach with attention to the operations of the
poetic text to bring out aspects of the self in Irish writing that
have been given only cursory critical attention so far.
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