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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Irish poetry"”.
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"Emblems of Adversity": W.B. Yeats's Poetics of Violence and Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry
W. B. Yeats’s poetry presents an interconnected world where desire is the progenitor of both violence and artistic expression. His poetry explores the interaction of art and violence. Poets from the North of Ireland such as Seamus Heaney and Nick Laird represent the dual legacy of W. B. Yeats’s …
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What Snuck about Hopewell and Other Places and Outside the ‘imaginative estate’: canon, dialect and aesthetics in Northern Irish poetry
… defined aspects within the field of contemporary Irish poetry (64,550 words excl. bibliography), a collection of poems (60 pages), substantial appendices and a bridging statement.<br/><br/>The first two chapters of the critical component examine the politics of literary tradition, taking as their …
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A cultural history of The Great Book of Ireland – Leabhar Mór na hÉireann
… the period by drawing on book history as well as Irish cultural, literary and art criticism. The thesis performs a close reading of nineteen folios of the GBOI using a thematic model; which examines the publishing and material history of the Irish poetry book, word-image relations, gender …
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Forms of dissent in the work of James Simmons and Padraic Fiacc: poetry, politics, and publishing in Northern Ireland, 1960-1980
… two poets as important figures in the Northern Irish poetry scene of the 1960s and 1970s, and considers how their work deviates aesthetically from that of some of their better-known poetic contemporaries. I trace the lines of influence between Simmons, Fiacc, and peers such as Seamus Heaney, …
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Ekphrasis and ethics in the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Eavan Boland.
… rejection of Yeats's ideas about a unified Irish nation and cultural tradition, she continues his poetic legacy of exploiting the liminal potential of ekphrasis to re-imagine Ireland as a community bound by common loss rather than by common suffering and injustice. Ekphrasis is a response to …
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Rhyming grammars and Celtic phonology
… of segments in a poetic constituent. In Early Irish poetry, strict identity of consonants in RDs is not required, but consonants instead correspond based on membership in defined classes. These classes correlate with sonority levels. Though analysis of VCC and bisyllabic rhymes, which match for …
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Yeats and labour
… his lifetime. It focuses primarily on Yeats’s poetry, though consideration is also made of his letters, essays, plays, and speeches. The five chapters of the thesis are organised chronologically. Chapter 1 argues that Yeats’s early poetry makes sympathetic connections between the plight of …
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Lost Elysium: space as a metaphor for the liminal in a post-Catholic world
This thesis was submitted as part of a PhD by Prior Publication. It explores the motivations for my writing, and examines the formative early experiences, and early artistic habits and reading in which my life as a writer are rooted. The thesis is divided into two parts, an essay called ‘Lost …