The Japanese effect in contemporary Irish poetry
By: Irene De Angelis
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780230248953
Subjects: History and criticism; Japanese influences; Irish authors; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English poetry; LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese; Irish poetry; In literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
Description: "The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry provides a stimulating, original and lively analysis of the Irish-Japanese literary connection from the early 1960s to 2006. While for some this may partly remain Oscar Wilde's 'mode of style', this book will show that there is more of Japan in the work of contemporary Irish poets than 'a tinkling of china/and tea into china.' Drawing on unpublished new sources, Irene De Angelis includes poets from a broad range of cultural backgrounds with richly varied styles: Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Ciaran Carson and Paul Muldoon, together with younger poets such as Sinéad Morrissey and Joseph Woods. Including close readings of selected poems, this is an indispensable companion for all those interested in the broader historical and cultural research on the effect of oriental literature in modernist and postmodernist Irish poetry. "--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Acknowledgements; title: List of Illustrations; title: Foreword; title: Introduction; title: "Petals" on Sandymount Strand : Seamus Heaney; title: Snow Was General All Over Japan : Derek Mahon; title: Self-Contained Images and the Invisible Cities of Tokyo : Ciaran Carson; title: The Gentle Art of Disappearing : Gabriel Rosenstock, Michael Hartnett and Paul Muldoon; title: 'Tu n'as Rien Vu a Hiroshima' : Thomas Kinsella, Eoghan O Tuairisc/Eugene Watters, Anthony Glavin; title: In Spaces Between East and West : Andrew Fitzsimons, Sinead Morrissey and Joseph Woods; title: Bibliography; title: Index.