Poetics of the Local: Globalization, Place, and Contemporary Irish Poetry

Considers how Irish poets have drawn on discourses of locality to articulate new forms of place and belonging amid Ireland’s transforming global identity.

ISBN-13: 9781438493824

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Publication Date: 07-01-2023

Pages: 246

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

Shirley Lau Wong is Assistant Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Poetics of the Local

1. Occasional Poetry and the Creative Economy

2. Some Versions of Irish Pastoral

3. The Loco-descriptive Details of Belfast

4. Paul Muldoon and the Difficulty of Comparison

Coda: Race, Place, and the Grounds of Irish Geopolitics
Notes
Bibliography
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