The Female Figure in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Poetry
Publication Year: 2013
Published by: Cork University Press
Cover
Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
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p. viii-viii
Iwish to thank La Salle University in Philadelphia for grants and release from teaching which allowed me to work on this book, and the Fulbright Foundation for a fellowship to begin ...
CHAPTER 1 - Beginnings
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pp. 1-21
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin once explained: ‘What attracts me is that which I do not know’.2 Sometimes stepping over boundaries into unknown territory brings enlightenment; however, often ...
CHAPTER 2 - Female Figures and Poetic Strategies
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pp. 22-37
In discussing a woman poet creating female figures, and any meaning the poem might suggest, the issues of both intention and poetic strategies arise. We need to understand that a subjective poetic voice is ...
CHAPTER 3 - Imagining History
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pp. 38-59
Ní Chuilleanáin’s interest in history is apparent in all of her work, but hers is a historiography defined in its broadest sense from the political history of Ireland and beyond, to her own personal and family..
CHAPTER 4 - Fictive Women: Myth and Folklore
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pp. 40-80
An interesting debate has developed over the differences between myth and history and each as a source of knowledge. In an essay on ‘Myth, History and Theory’, Peter Heehs sums up the debate: ‘positivist ...
CHAPTER 5 - Women and the Sacred
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pp. 81-107
One of the more intriguing aspects of Ní Chuilleanáin’s work is her interest in the sacred and the spiritual, demonstrated often through traditional religious imagery. The connections with history are ...
CHAPTER 6 - Presence and Place
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pp. 108-127
As we can see from the cloisters and chapels and churches described in the previous chapter, we cannot read Ní Chuilleanáin’s poems without being struck by her interest in architecture and the ways in which ...
CHAPTER 7 - Transformation and Translation
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pp. 128-149
The copious dark in the final poem of The Sun-fish, discussed at the end of the last chapter, has applications not only to space and place but also to language. In discussing the value of Renaissance rhetoric, ...
CHAPTER 8 - Conclusion
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pp. 150-155
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s ability to tease many associations and meanings from images and what she calls ‘slippery’ words is a key to her work, as well as to how she views human experience. Hers is a world ...
Endnotes
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pp. 157-172
Select Bibliography
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pp. 173-183
Index
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pp. 185-194
Back Cover
E-ISBN-13: 9781909005730
E-ISBN-10: 1909005738
Print-ISBN-13: 9781859184981
Print-ISBN-10: 1859184987
Page Count: 204
Publication Year: 2013
Edition: 1
