Of Mermaids and Others

An Introduction to the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

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Cary A. Shay

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Modern Poetry

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This volume is a critical introduction to the poetry of Irish writer Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. Writing poetry exclusively in Irish but allowing and overseeing translations of her work into several languages, primarily English, Ní Dhomhnaill is the first Irish-language poet to gain an international following. She is also a pioneer in fostering a renewed relationship between the two languages of Ireland’s literary traditions. Ní Dhomhnaill is unflinching in her interventions into problematic social, linguistic and even theoretical arenas, and is well known for her brutal parodies, ribald sexual scenarios and persistent debunking and revising of religious, political and mythological imagery. Her primary thematic concerns demonstrate her dedication to critiquing and ultimately changing dominant discourses so that they account for the presence and contributions of women writers. This volume explores the fraught issues of translating and contextualizing Ní Dhomhnaill’s œuvre, her use and revisions of Irish myth, folklore and political and religious iconography, her re-imagining of the mother in culture and religious ideology, and the devices of death, silence and psychoanalytic discourse in her mermaid cycle and other poems. The book hails Ní Dhomhnaill, who has not hitherto received a great deal of critical attention in English, as a major figure in world literature.

Author Biography:

Cary A. Shay holds degrees in Classical Studies, Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama and English Literature from universities in the United States, Ireland and the United Kingdom. She completed her PhD at the University of Kent. Her research interests include modern poetry, Anglo-Irish and Irish-language literature, psychoanalytic theory, and feminism and psychoanalysis.

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January 14th, 2014

Author

Cary A. Shay

Audience

Professional & Vocational

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Series edited by David Ayers
Series edited by David Herd
Series edited by Jan Montefiore

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New edition

Pages

258

Series

Modern Poetry

Dimensions

150x225x23

ISBN-13

9783034308106

Product ID

22138572

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