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Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin's female figures [electronic resource] / Patricia Boyle Haberstroh.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 2013 2013) 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 electronic text (viii, 194 p.) :) digital fileISBN:
  • 9781909005730
  • 1909005738
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 821.914 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6064.I125 Z633 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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