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'].
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | Belfast |
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Publisher | Appletree Press |
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Number of pages | 57 |
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ISBN (Print) | 978-1-84758-150-1 |
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Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 2013 |
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