Liminal Borderlands in Irish Literature and Culture.
Title:
Liminal Borderlands in Irish Literature and Culture.
Author:
Gilsenan Nordin, Irene.
ISBN:
9783035300765
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (212 pages)
Series:
Reimagining Ireland ; v.9
Reimagining Ireland
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction: Borders and States of In-Betweenness in Irish Literature and Culture Irene Gilsenan Nordin and Elin Holmsten 7 -- Part I. Liminal States -- 1 Limning the Liminal, Thinking the Threshold: Irish Studies' Approach to Theory Michael G. O'Sullivan 17 -- 2 Images of Migration in Irish Film: Thinking Inside the Box Cheryl temple Herr 35 -- Part II. Liminal Narratives -- 3 History in/of the Borderlands: Emily Lawless and the Story of Ireland Heidi Hansson 51 -- 4 "'The Other' that Moves and Misleads": Mapping and Temporality in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's The Dancer's Dancing Susan Cahill 69 -- Part III. Drama as Liminal Rites of Passage -- 5 Movement as Text, Text as Movement: The Choreographic Writing of Samuel Beckett Lotta Palmerstierna Einarsson 87 -- 6 Caught in the Liminal: Dorothy Cross's Udder Series and Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats… Róisín O'Gorman 103 -- Part IV. Transformative Spaces in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry -- 7 Identity as Becoming: Polymorphic Female Identities in the Poetry of Boland, Meehan and Ní Dhomhnaill Katarzyna Poloczek 131 -- 8 "So Much Psychic Land […] to Reclaim": Otherworldly Encounters in Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's Poetry Michaela Schrage-Früh 151 -- 9 The (Translato)logic of Spectrality: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Her English Doubles Maryna Romanets 173 -- Contributors 197 -- Index 201.
Abstract:
Liminality, if interpreted as a concern with borders and states of in-betweenness, is a widespread theme in Irish literature and culture, which is perhaps not surprising considering the colonial and postcolonial background of Ireland. The liminal, from the Latin word limen, meaning a threshold, can be broadly defined as a transitional place of becoming. It is a borderland state of ambiguity and indeterminacy, leading those who participate in the process to new perspectives and possibilities. This collection of essays examines the theme of liminality in Irish literature and culture against the philosophical discourse of modernity and focuses on representations of liminality in contemporary Irish literature, art and film in a variety of contexts. The book is divided into four sections. The first part deals with theoretical aspects of liminal states. Other sections focus on liminal narratives and explore drama as liminal rites of passage, while the last part examines transformative spaces in contemporary Irish women's poetry.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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