Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry

the war and painting pictures from the canvas of crashed airplanes. For Adorno, the ethical function of the work of art is to cr ...

same. This is identified by Hand as an unethical politics and system of knowledge that denies the way in which subjectivity is c ...

Levinasís philosophy represents a critique of the self presentation, autonomy and knowledge that constitutes the Cartesian cogit ...

Language is viewed as mediating with alterity which makes the subjectís experience unheimlich. For Levinas, the ënon-intentional ...

In her essay ëHistory Gaspsí (1995), the title of which is taken from Berkeleyís poem ëEaster 1944í (1986), Gerardine Meaney tou ...

is represented in terms of an engulfment, fall or a drowning that does not happen. At a metaphorical level, the poem explores th ...

ëotherí to remain ungraspable is a love that dies. That is, a love that tries to ëauffassení the ëotherí or delimit alterity, ri ...

the speaker sets up expectations only to undermine them, as in the first stanza with the flood that never comes. In order to cre ...

rubble from that very breakthrough, which threatens to bury and immobilize its advance [Ö]^40 In ëFacts About Waterí the space c ...

by implication, identity. But the man in Berkeleyís poem chooses to write ëfacts about waterí, and he composes a list of nautica ...

notion that men have access to mastery through language is shown to be incorrect since in her poem language has little to do wit ...

delimitation, knowledge and navigation, and that which is associated with limitlessness, alterity and disorientation. Irigaray g ...

As he tries to measure time and space, the man seeks to measure out the sea and this is associated with the marine loverís body. ...

Here, the ethical project for the female writer is to bring into being an unruly feminine excess that displaces the (gender) bin ...

an uncertain entry into both sense and nonsense ñ but she does not fall. Sitting on a wall or fence is evocative of situating on ...

and communitarian, which relies on conversing with one another and versing alterity. As she hits at the limits of language and c ...

Emily Dickinsonís ëconfusioní with which the poem begins.^47 But here, the silence need not be gendered as in Irigaray whereby w ...

Creative stuttering is what makes language grow from the middle, like grass; it is what makes language a rhizome instead of a tr ...

Disequilibrium, Disorientation and Diaspora Berkeleyís poem ëPolesí deals further with disequilibrium and disorientation whereby ...

this could refer to the lie of the land or the lies of the land. If the lie of the land is a lie then its demarcations are not t ...