Animals in Irish Literature and Culture [electronic resource] /
Kirkpatrick, Kathryn.author.
Faragó, Borbála.author.
Animals in Irish Literature and Culture spans the early modern period to the present, exploring colonial, post-colonial, and globalized manifestations of Ireland as country and state as well as the human animal and non-human animal migrations that challenge a variety of literal and cultural borders.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Animals in Irish Literature and Culture spans the early modern period to the present, exploring colonial, post-colonial, and globalized manifestations of Ireland as country and state as well as the human animal and non-human animal migrations that challenge a variety of literal and cultural borders.
Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Forward; Margo DeMello -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction; Kathryn Kirkpatrick -- PART I: HUNTING AND CONSUMING ANIMALS -- 1. 'Our sep'rate Natures are the same': Reading Blood Sports in Irish Poetry of the Long Eighteenth Century'; Lucy Collins -- 2. Quick Red Foxes: Irish Women Write the Hunt; Kathryn Kirkpatrick -- 3. Dennis O'Driscoll's Beef with the Celtic Tiger; Amanda Sperry -- 4. Porcine Pasts and Bourgeois Pigs: Consumption and the Irish Counterculture; Sarah Townsend -- PART II: GENDER AND ANIMALS -- 5. 'Their disembodied voices cry': Marine Animals and Their Songs of Absence in the Poetry of Sine;ad Morrissey, Caitri;ona O'Reilly and Mary O'Donoghue; Katarzyna Poloczek -- 6. Hares and Hags: Becoming Animal in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's Dún na mBan trí Thine; Sarah O'Connor -- 7. 'Even the animals in the fields': Animals, Queers, and Violence; Ed Madden -- 8. 'A pedigree bitch, like myself': (Non)Human Illness and Death in Dorothy Molloy's Poetry; Luz Mar González-Arias -- PART III: CHALLENGING HABITS -- 9. Impersonating Authority: Animals and the Anglo-Irish Social Order in Maria Edgeworth's Ennui and Edmund Spenser's Mother Hubberds Tale; Andrew Smythe -- 10. 'Do You Dance, Minnaloushe?' Yeats's Animal Questions; Liam Young -- 11. Room for Creatures: Frances Harvey's Bestiary; Donna Potts -- 12. 'A capacity for sustained flight': Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Ecology of Avian Encounter; Christine Cusick -- PART IV: UNSETTLING ANIMALS -- 13. Mad Dogs and Irishmen: Dogs, Dracula, and the Colonial Irish Other; Jeanne Dubino -- 14. The Celtic Tiger's Equine Imaginary; Maria Pramaggiore -- 15. Transnational - Transanimal: Reading the Insect in Irish Migrant Poetry; Borbála Faragó -- 16. Strange Becomings: Paul Muldoon's Maggot; Tom Herron -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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