Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry

Milton called ití ìmiddle flightîí. Heaney goes further explaining how this is ëa fullness [which] rebounds back upon itself, or ...

equilibrium, brimí.^78 In Seeing Things Heaney attempts to write on the brim, between ëair and oceaní in the hope of ëequilibriu ...

begins to question the limits of representation and boundary lines. Heaneyís challenge to dividing lines, including that between ...

province, an Ireland of the mind where contesting identities come together, an-ëother worldí.^85 This was one intention of the F ...

The first words got polluted Like the river water in the morning Flowing with the dirt Of blurbs and the front pages.^87 As the ...

populace is presented in danger of being repressive and equated with the dominating ëideologyí. This is where post-colonial nati ...

and the spirit-level serve as metaphors that avoid polarization; always in the middle, they chart a space of balance. At the ris ...

More scouts than strangers, ghosts whoíd walked abroad Unfazed by light, to make a new beginning And make a go of it, alive and ...

between Danish and English languages written on the signs, Heaney breaks down the dividing line between different kinds of imper ...

for an authentic sense of Irishness, ëThe Tollund Maní and ëTollundí, notice how sacrosanct versions of history and nationality, ...

territory, providing only ëpap for the dispossessedí. On the other hand, Heaneyís imagining of a ëTownland of Peaceí connects wi ...

2 Liminal Spaces: Tom Paulin Walking a Line In Walking a Line my interest is in the dangerous edge of things.^1 Paulin: Poet and ...

potentially rebellious impulses. It is a paradigmatic gesture of spontaneity in an increasingly manipulated world.^3 In spite of ...

In her essay ëTom Paulin: Enlightening the Tribeí (1993), Clair Wills understands Paulinís poetry as ëdedicated to a post-coloni ...

drawn between an aesthetics of privacy and a public politics, as each informs the other. This is merely the first contradiction ...

of the politics of Enlightened Dissent that are celebrated in Paulinís essays. Instead the poetry offers readers a more doubtful ...

How far then, does Walking a Line risk falling off the line, blurring boundaries between opposites, in an attempt to escape from ...

of Paul Kleeís art and art theory, Jean-FranÁois Lyotard argues via the work and diaries of Klee, that the lines of language and ...

ëDesire does not speak, it violates the order of speechí.^25 For Lyotard, via Merleau-Ponty, the invisible world violates the vi ...

Lafl das T ̧fleln, lafl das Holbeln, heilig halte die Ekstasen.^29 Morgenstern created doodles and used them as vignettes betwee ...