Animals in Irish Literature and Culture

2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-43479-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4679 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kirkpatrick, Kathryn

Faragó, Borbála

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Sinéad Morrissey, Caitríona 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 Smyth 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

Über Autor(innen)

Lucy Collins, University College Dublin, Ireland Christine Cusick, Seton Hill University, USA Jeanne Dubino, Appalachian State University, USA Borbála Faragó St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Ireland Luz Mar González-Arias University of Oviedo, Spain Tom Herron, Leeds Beckett University, UK Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Appalachian State University, USA Sarah O'Connor, University of Toronto, USA Katarzyna Poloczek, University of Lodz, Poland. Donna L. Potts, Washington State University, USA Maria Pramaggiore, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland Andrew Smyth, Southern Connecticut State University, USA Amanda Sperry, Georgia State University, USA Sarah L. Townsend, University of South Dakota, USA Liam Young, University of Alberta, USA