‘Turning One Sort of Poetry into Another’: Medbh McGuckian’s Captain Lavender and the Surface Reader
This essay assesses the cultural importance of Medbh McGuckian’s fifth collection of poems, Captain Lavender from 1994, and argues that it is a pivotal collection in McGuckian’s overall achievement marked by a decisive shift in her themes and technique. The essay places the work in the context of t...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | Richard Kirkland |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies
2021-11-01
|
| Series: | Review of Irish Studies in Europe |
| Online Access: | https://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/rise/article/view/2833 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Similar Items
-
Testimonial ‘Sideshadowing’: The Narrative Hospitality of Medbh McGuckian’s Blaris Moor
by: Jessica Bundschuh
Published: (2021-11-01) -
Cultural Memory and Images of Resurrection in Medbh McGuckian’s Commemorative Poems
by: Fanni Fekete-Nagy
Published: (2021-11-01) -
Architecting the Carceral State: The Fragment in Medbh McGuckian's Diaries and Walter Benjamin's 'Theses'
by: Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
Published: (2021-11-01) -
‘A Roar of Wings’: Faith, Scepticism, the Sublime in Medbh McGuckian’s The Book of the Angel
by: Jefferson Holdridge
Published: (2021-11-01) -
'I speak the language. I know how to be a woman here': Speaking the Language with Medbh McGuckian
by: Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem, et al.
Published: (2021-11-01)