Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin's female figures
Haberstroh, Patricia Boyle.
Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin's female figures [electronic resource] / Patricia Boyle Haberstroh. - Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 2013 - 1 online resource (1 electronic text (viii, 194 p.) :) digital file.
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-183) and index.
Beginnings -- Female figures and poetic strategies -- Imagining history -- Fictive women : myth and folklore -- Women and the sacred -- Place and presence -- Transformation and translation -- Conclusions -- Endnotes -- Select bibliography.
This is a six chapter study of the image of the female in Ní Chuilleanáin's poetry, emphasizing the ways in which she revises conventional cultural images of women in order to challenge stereotypical images and create a more multidimensional perspective on women's lives and achievements. It explores the way in which she uses history, myth and folklore, religion and ritual, and architectural space to revise and create alternative female figures.
9781909005730 1909005738
Ní Chuilleanáin, Eilean, 1942- --Criticism and interpretation.
Women in literature.
Irish poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PR6064.I125 / Z633 2013
821.914
Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin's female figures [electronic resource] / Patricia Boyle Haberstroh. - Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 2013 - 1 online resource (1 electronic text (viii, 194 p.) :) digital file.
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-183) and index.
Beginnings -- Female figures and poetic strategies -- Imagining history -- Fictive women : myth and folklore -- Women and the sacred -- Place and presence -- Transformation and translation -- Conclusions -- Endnotes -- Select bibliography.
This is a six chapter study of the image of the female in Ní Chuilleanáin's poetry, emphasizing the ways in which she revises conventional cultural images of women in order to challenge stereotypical images and create a more multidimensional perspective on women's lives and achievements. It explores the way in which she uses history, myth and folklore, religion and ritual, and architectural space to revise and create alternative female figures.
9781909005730 1909005738
Ní Chuilleanáin, Eilean, 1942- --Criticism and interpretation.
Women in literature.
Irish poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PR6064.I125 / Z633 2013
821.914