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Ciaran Carson: critical essays

Elmer Kennedy-Andrews, editor
Resource Type:
Book (Print/Paper)
Publication:
Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, [2009]
Copyright:
©2009

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Summary:
These essays chart the development of Ciaran Carson's career, scrutinizing his experiments in a new urban poetics, including his obsessive concern with maps and labyrinths. The essays examine his interest in narrative, and explore the continuities between his poetry and his prose, and they consider his relation to various poetic traditions.--From publisher description.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : for all I know / Ciaran Carson in conversation with Elmer Kennedy-Andrews
  • Language and the prosodic line in Carson's poetry / Peter Denman
  • "Pushed next to nothing" : Ciaran Carson's 'Breaking news' / David Wheatley
  • "Walking in the city" : space, narrative and surveillance in 'The Irish for no' and 'Belfast confetti' / John Goodby
  • "The mouth of the poem" : Carson and place / Eamonn Hughes
  • "Cruising to the podes" : Ciaran Carson's virtual realities / Stan Smith
  • The word as object : commodification in the poetry of Ciaran Carson / Michael McAteer
  • Ciaran Carson : the spy in the superior turret / Tim Hancock
  • "Faery lands forlorn" : reading tradition in the poetry of Ciaran Carson / Patricia Horton
  • Carson's carnival of language : the influence of Irish and the oral tradition / Frank Sewell
  • Borrowed lines? : a reading of Ciaran Carson's American influences / Ciaran O'Neill
  • Alphabets and labyrinths in Ciaran Carson's 'Fishing for amber' / Jerzy Jarniewicz
  • Carson, Heaney, and the art of getting lost / Elmer Kennedy-Andrews
  • Acoustic perfume / Alan Gillis.
Contributors:
Kennedy-Andrews, Elmer, 1948-
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Subjects:
Carson, Ciaran, 1948-2019 — Criticism and interpretation
Belfast (Northern Ireland) — Intellectual life
Carson, Ciaran, 1948-2019
Criticism and interpretation
Intellectual life
Northern Ireland — Belfast
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Physical Description:
284 pages ; 24 cm
Call Numbers:
PR6053.A714 Z56 2009
ISBNs:
9781846821561
1846821568
9781846821622 (pbk.)
1846821622 (pbk.)
Library of Congress Control Numbers:
2009464443
OCLC Numbers:
303095616