The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry

Kenneth A. Loparo

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9780230355194
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry provides a stimulating, original and lively analysis of the Irish-Japanese literary connection from the early 1960s to 2007. While for some this may partly remain Oscar Wilde's 'mode of style', this book will show that there is more of Japan in the work of contemporary Irish poets than 'a tinkling of china/ and tea into china.' Drawing on unpublished new sources, Irene De Angelis includes poets from a broad range of cultural backgrounds with richly varied styles: Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Ciaran Carson and Paul Muldoon, together with younger poets such as Sinéad Morrissey and Joseph Woods. Including close readings of selected poems, this is an indispensable companion for all those interested in the broader historical and cultural research on the effect of oriental literature in modernist and postmodernist Irish poetry.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword: Japanese Figures, Anglophone Verse and the Irish Melody
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 Petals on Sandymount Strand
• 2 Snow Was General All Over Japan
• 3 Self-contained Images and the Invisible Cities of Tokyo
• 4 The Gentle Art of Disappearing
• 5 Tu n’as Rien Vu à Hiroshima
• 6 Between East and West
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index