Eascar agus Fás: the Early Poetry of Máirtín Ó Direáin

Frank Sewell

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Using post-structuralist and psychoanalytic literary theory (including Derrida, Lacan and Kristeva), this study explores Ó Direáin's early poetry as an expression of the desire for fixed subjecthood and a stable identity vis à vis the poet's growing realization that the 'self' is a 'de-centred' or split 'subject-in-process'. The analysis draws on Ó Direáin's prose writings, including Feamainn Bhealtaine ['Mayweed'].
LanguageEnglish
Place of PublicationBelfast
Number of pages57
Publication statusPublished - 2013

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Sewell, Frank. / Eascar agus Fás: the Early Poetry of Máirtín Ó Direáin. Belfast, 2013. 57 p.
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