The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion

By Tara Guissin-Stubbs

Book Overview

[Preface: What is a Sonnet?]
Introduction: The Modern Irish Sonnet 1. The Sonnet and the 'Irish' writer 2. Revision and Rebellion
Chapter 1: Art and Artifice 1.1 The Sonnet as Sonnet 1.2 Writing, Speaking, and 'The Language Issue' 1.3 'Nothing beside remains': architectural sonnets 1.4 The 'sonnet houses' of Richard Murphy's The Price of Stone 1.5 'Hereness' and 'thisness' in ekphrastic sonnets 1.6 Conclusion: art, artlessness, and artifice
Chapter 2: Sonnet Sequences 2.1 Seamus Heaney's 'District and Circle' sonnet cycle 2.2 Harry Clifton's Portobello Sonnets 2.3 Anthony Cronin's The End of the Modern World 2.4 Conclusion: 'psychic space' and 'slight returns' in sequences from Cronin to Muldoon
Chapter 3: Conversation 3.1 Ciaran Carson, Edmund Spenser, and The Twelfth of Never 3.2 Mary O'Malley, Eil?an N? Chuillean?in, and male voices 3.3 Ventriloquism: Paul Muldoon and Brendan Kennelly 3.4 Dialogue: Leontia Flynn and Paul Muldoon 3.5 Conclusion: speaking to others
Chapter 4: The Domestic 4.1 Noisy neighbours and uninvited guests 4.2 The domestic and the everyday 4.3 'Local rows': the politics of the domestic 4.4 Conclusion: the familiar and the strange
Chapter 5: The Amatory Sonnet 5.1 My funny Valentine: intimacy and humour in the sonnets of Paula Meehan 5.2 The 'passionate transitory': Ciaran Carson's For All We Know 5.3 Conclusion: desire, sex, and history
Conclusion 5.1 The Sonnet's insufficiency 5.2 'In all the mayhem': a chronology for the Modern Irish Sonnet?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030532445
• ISBN13: 9783030532444
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"