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Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin's female figures /

This is a six chapter study of the image of the female in Ní Chuilleanáin's poetry, emphasizing the ways in which she revises conventional cultural images of women in order to challenge stereotypical images and create a more multidimensional perspective on women's lives and achievements. I...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haberstroh, Patricia Boyle
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan, > 1942- > Criticism and interpretation.
Women in literature.
Irish poetry > Women authors > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings
  • Female figures and poetic strategies
  • Imagining history
  • Fictive women : myth and folklore
  • Women and the sacred
  • Place and presence
  • Transformation and translation
  • Conclusions
  • Endnotes
  • Select bibliography.