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A Chastened Communion : Modern Irish Poetry and Catholicism / Andrew J. Auge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Auge, Andrew J.
- Series:
- Irish Studies
- Irish studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion in literature.
- Irish poetry--History and criticism.
- Irish poetry.
- Catholic Church--In literature.
- Catholic Church.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Chastened Communion traces a new path through the well-traversed field of modern Irish poetry by revealing how critical engagement with Catholicism shapes the trajectory of the poetic careers of Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Paul Durcan, and Paula Meehan. Underlying their divergent poetic styles and thematic concerns, Auge discerns a common pattern. He shows how a demythologizing critique of some elemental features of Irish Catholicism-the sacraments of confession and the Eucharist, the pilgrimages to holy wells and Lough Derg, the veneration of the Blessed Virgin, the imperative to self-sacrifice, the narrowly patriarchal nature of the institution-elicit, for each of these poets, a radical reshaping of these traditional religious phenomena. Auge provides compelling new readings of major Irish poets and establishes a basis for distinguishing modern Irish poetry from its Anglophone counterparts.
- Contents:
- Austin Clarke's (Anti-)confessional poetics
- Kavanagh's parochialism: A catholic poetics of place
- Partition and communion in John Montague's poetry
- Transcending sacrifice: how Heaney makes room for the marvelous
- Relics and nuns in Eilean ní Chuilleanáin's poetry: sifting the remains of Irish catholicism
- Paul Durcan's priests: refashioning Irish masculinity
- Paula Meehan's revised marianism: the apparitions of "our lady of the facts of life"
- Epilogue: Religion and poetry in post-catholic Ireland.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780815652397
- 0815652399
- OCLC:
- 869303978
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