Overview
- Brings Derridean theory to bear, for the first time, on Irish poetry canon-formation
- Argues for problematising, challenging readings of Irish poetry rather than readings that define and explain
- Offers a number of striking new readings of the works of established and emerging Irish poets
Part of the book series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature (NDIIAL)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
‘This book makes an important intervention into debates about influence and contemporary Irish poetry. Supported throughout by incisive reflections upon allusion, word choice, and formal structure, Keating brings to the discussion a range of new and lesser known voices which decisively complicate and illuminate its pronounced concerns with inheritance, history, and the Irish poetic canon.’ — Steven Matthews, Professor of English Literature, University of Reading, UK, and author of Irish Poetry: Politics, History, Negotiation and Yeats As Precursor
This book is about the way that contemporary Irish poetry is dominated and shaped by criticism. It argues that critical practices tend to construct reductive, singular and static understandings of poetic texts, identities, careers, and maps of the development of modern Irish poetry. This study challenges the attempt present within such criticism to arrest, stabilize, and diffuse the threat multiple alternative histories and understandings of texts would pose to the formation of any singular pyramidal canon. Offered here are detailed close readings of the recent work of some of the most established and high-profile Irish poets, such as Paul Muldoon and Medbh McGuckian, along with emerging poets, to foreground an alternative critical methodology which undermines the traditional canonical pursuit of singular meaning and definition through embracing the troubling indeterminacy and multiplicity to be found within contemporary Irish poetry.
Reviews
“This book makes an important intervention into debates about influence and contemporary Irish poetry. Supported throughout by incisive reflections upon allusion, word choice, and formal structure, Keating brings to the discussion a range of new and lesser known voices which decisively complicate and illuminate its pronounced concerns with inheritance, history, and the Irish poetic canon.” (Steven Matthews, Professor of English Literature, University of Reading, UK, and author of “Irish Poetry: Politics, History, Negotiation and of Yeats As Precursor”)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Canon
Book Subtitle: Critical Limitations and Textual Liberations
Authors: Kenneth Keating
Series Title: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51112-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51111-5Published: 10 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84569-2Published: 18 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51112-2Published: 27 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-3182
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3190
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 259
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Contemporary Literature