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Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Pastoral Tradition
Donna L. Potts
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Description for Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Pastoral Tradition
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 456.
In Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Pastoral Tradition, Donna L. Potts closely examines the pastoral genre in the work of six Irish poets writing today. Through the exploration of the poets and their works, she reveals the wide range of purposes that pastoral has served in both Northern Ireland and the Republic: a postcolonial critique of British imperialism; a response to modernity, industrialization, and globalization; a way of uncovering political and social repercussions of gendered representations of Ireland; and, more recently, a means for conveying environmentalism's more complex understanding of the value of nature. Potts traces the pastoral back ... Read more
In Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Pastoral Tradition, Donna L. Potts closely examines the pastoral genre in the work of six Irish poets writing today. Through the exploration of the poets and their works, she reveals the wide range of purposes that pastoral has served in both Northern Ireland and the Republic: a postcolonial critique of British imperialism; a response to modernity, industrialization, and globalization; a way of uncovering political and social repercussions of gendered representations of Ireland; and, more recently, a means for conveying environmentalism's more complex understanding of the value of nature. Potts traces the pastoral back ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Missouri Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826219435
SKU
V9780826219435
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99-15
About Donna L. Potts
Donna L. Potts is Professor of English at Kansas State University and the author of many articles on Irish poetry, as well as Howard Nemerov and Objective Idealism: The Influence of Owen Barfield (University of Missouri Press). She lives in Manhattan, Kansas.
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