TY - CHAP
T1 - Eavan Boland's Muse Mothers
AU - Clark, Heather
PY - 2010/11/12
Y1 - 2010/11/12
N2 - This chapter contains sections titled:References and Further Reading
AB - This chapter contains sections titled:References and Further Reading
KW - Boland's feminism, not so much in the form of her work - like Plath, her verse becoming looser over time
KW - Boland's poetry, easily dismissed - just as it has been too easily praised
KW - Boland's treatment of themes - bold and assured, even, at times, polemical
KW - Boland, herself expressing - ambivalence about her status as a feminist writer
KW - Catherine Byron, "Beneath the make-up and the dimity, behind all those sketched in apparent portraits - is Eavan Boland, with a pen in her hand and a mirror before her"
KW - Eavan Boland's Muse Mothers
KW - Eavan Boland's poetry and prose - a desire to untangle complex relationship between woman, history and the Irish nation
KW - Guinn Batten, calling Boland - as "probably Ireland's most influential feminist"
KW - Mother Ireland, in Boland's hands - becoming modernized and stripped of its atavistic power
KW - Night Feed, a more successful revision of the Aisling genre - "Night Feed," "Partings," "Endings" and "Fruit on a Straight-Sided Tray"
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UR - https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+Companion+to+Irish+Literature%2C+2+Volume+Set-p-9781444351699
U2 - 10.1002/9781444328066.ch50
DO - 10.1002/9781444328066.ch50
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781405188098
T3 - Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
SP - 328
EP - 344
BT - A Companion to Irish Literature
A2 - Wright, Julia M.
PB - Blackwell
CY - Oxford
ER -
