TY - BOOK AU - Haberstroh,Patricia Boyle ED - Project Muse. ED - Project Muse. TI - Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin's female figures SN - 9781909005730 AV - PR6064.I125 Z633 2013 U1 - 821.914 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Cork, Ireland PB - Cork University Press KW - Ní Chuilleanáin, Eilean, KW - Women in literature KW - Irish poetry KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic books KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781909005730/ ER -