The Modern Irish Sonnet E-Book

Tara Guissin-Stubbs

• Herausgeber: Springer International Publishing
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion discusses how and why the sonnet appeals to Irish poets and has grown in popularity over the last century. Using a thematic approach, Tara Guissin-Stubbs argues for the significance of the Irish sonnet as a discrete entity within modern and contemporary poetry, and shows how the Irish sonnet has become a debating chamber for discussions concerning the relationship between Irish and British culture, poetry and gender, and revision and rebellion. The text reshapes the poetic and critical field, exploring canonical and non-canonical poems by male and female poets so as to challenge outmoded views of the thematic and formal limitations of the sonnet.