Animals in Irish literature and culture
By: edited by Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Borbála Faragó
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137434791
Subjects: English literature; Animals in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; History and criticism; PHILOSOPHY / General; NATURE / Animals / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Irish authors; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
Description: "Animals in Irish Literature and Culture spans the early modern period to the present, and includes essays exploring some of Ireland's better known animals--birds, horses, pigs, cows, and dogs--as well as its less considered animals--hares, foxes, eels, and insects. The collection also unsettles the boundaries and definitions of 'nation' by 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. In essays addressing a range of Irish cultural production, contributors consider the impacts of conceptual categories of nature, animality, and humanness on actual human and animal lives. Emerging in the era of the sixth mass extinction, brought on by human-induced climate change and habitat destruction, this volume aims to make a contribution to eco-critical thought and practice in Irish Studies and beyond"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of Illustrations; title: Forward; Margo DeMello; title: Acknowledgements; title: Notes on the Contributors; title: Introduction; Kathryn Kirkpatrick; title: PART I: HUNTING AND CONSUMING ANIMALS; title: 1. 'Our sep'rate Natures are the same': Reading Blood Sports in Irish Poetry of the Long Eighteenth Century'; Lucy Collins; title: 2. Quick Red Foxes: Irish Women Write the Hunt; Kathryn Kirkpatrick; title: 3. Dennis O'Driscoll's Beef with the Celtic Tiger; Amanda Sperry; title: 4. Porcine Pasts and Bourgeois Pigs: Consumption and the Irish Counterculture; Sarah Townsend; title: PART II: GENDER AND ANIMALS; title: 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; title: 6. Hares and Hags: Becoming Animal in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's Dún na mBan trí Thine; Sarah O'Connor; title: 7. 'Even the animals in the fields': Animals, Queers, and Violence; Ed Madden; title: 8. 'A pedigree bitch, like myself': (Non)Human Illness and Death in Dorothy Molloy's Poetry; Luz Mar González-Arias; title: PART III: CHALLENGING HABITS; title: 9. Impersonating Authority: Animals and the Anglo-Irish Social Order in Maria Edgeworth's Ennui and Edmund Spenser's Mother Hubberds Tale; Andrew Smythe; title: 10. 'Do You Dance, Minnaloushe?' Yeats's Animal Questions; Liam Young; title: 11. Room for Creatures: Frances Harvey's Bestiary; Donna Potts; title: 12. 'A capacity for sustained flight': Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Ecology of Avian Encounter; Christine Cusick; title: PART IV: UNSETTLING ANIMALS; title: 13. Mad Dogs and Irishmen: Dogs, Dracula, and the Colonial Irish Other; Jeanne Dubino; title: 14. The Celtic Tiger's Equine Imaginary; Maria Pramaggiore; title: 15. Transnational - Transanimal: Reading the Insect in Irish Migrant Poetry; Borbála Faragó; title: 16. Strange Becomings: Paul Muldoon's Maggot; Tom Herron; title: Selected Bibliography; title: Index.