The Modern Irish Sonnet

The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion discusses how and why the sonnet appeals to Irish poets and has grown in popularity over the last century. Using a thematic approach, Tara Guissin-Stubbs argues for the significance of the Irish sonnet as a discrete entity within modern and contemporary poetry, and shows how the Irish sonnet has become a debating chamber for discussions concerning the relationship between Irish and British culture, poetry and gender, and revision and rebellion. The text reshapes the poetic and critical field, exploring canonical and non-canonical poems by male and female poets so as to challenge outmoded views of the thematic and formal limitations of the sonnet.

Auteur

Tara Guissin-Stubbs is Associate Professor of English Literature at Oxford's Department for Continuing Education, and the Dean of Kellogg College, Oxford University, UK. Her publications include American Literature and Irish Culture, 19101955: the politics of enchantment (2013) and, with Doug Haynes, Navigating the Transnational in Modern American Literature and Culture (2017).

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The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion discusses how and why the sonnet appeals to Irish poets and has grown in popularity over the last century. Using a thematic approach, Tara Guissin-Stubbs argues for the significance of the Irish sonnet as a discrete entity within modern and contemporary poetry, and shows how the Irish sonnet has become a debating chamber for discussions concerning the relationship between Irish and British culture, poetry and gender, and revision and rebellion. The text reshapes the poetic and critical field, exploring canonical and non-canonical poems by male and female poets so as to challenge outmoded views of the thematic and formal limitations of the sonnet.

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[Preface: What is a Sonnet?]
Introduction: The Modern Irish Sonnet1. The Sonnet and the 'Irish' writer2. Revision and Rebellion
Chapter 1: Art and Artifice1.1 The Sonnet as Sonnet1.2 Writing, Speaking, and 'The Language Issue'1.3 'Nothing beside remains': architectural sonnets1.4 The 'sonnet houses' of Richard Murphy's The Price of Stone1.5 'Hereness' and 'thisness' in ekphrastic sonnets1.6 Conclusion: art, artlessness, and artifice
Chapter 2: Sonnet Sequences2.1 Seamus Heaney's 'District and Circle' sonnet cycle2.2 Harry Clifton's Portobello Sonnets2.3 Anthony Cronin's The End of the Modern World2.4 Conclusion: 'psychic space' and 'slight returns' in sequences from Cronin to Muldoon
Chapter 3: Conversation3.1 Ciaran Carson, Edmund Spenser, and The Twelfth of Never3.2 Mary O'Malley, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, and male voices3.3 Ventriloquism: Paul Muldoon and Brendan Kennelly3.4 Dialogue: Leontia Flynn and Paul Muldoon3.5 Conclusion: speaking to others
Chapter 4: The Domestic4.1 Noisy neighbours and uninvited guests4.2 The domestic and the everyday4.3 'Local rows': the politics of the domestic4.4 Conclusion: the familiar and the strange
Chapter 5: The Amatory Sonnet5.1 My funny Valentine: intimacy and humour in the sonnets of Paula Meehan5.2 The 'passionate transitory': Ciaran Carson's For All We Know5.3 Conclusion: desire, sex, and history
Conclusion5.1 The Sonnet's insufficiency5.2 'In all the mayhem': a chronology for the Modern Irish Sonnet?