Irish Animal Poetics

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-03191-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Irish Literature

Irish Animal Poetics is an interdisciplinary edited collection of essays focused the representation of relationships between the human and the non-human within Irish literary and cultural histories.

Drawing on the field of Environmental Humanities, this book traces a constellation of fictional, nonfictional, and poetic genres, advancing diverse yet mutually informative readings of their forms, contents, and context. While its emerging themes revolve around climate change, habitat devastation and exhausting resource extraction, the contributors move beyond general ecocriticism by incorporating sensibilities from Animal Studies as well as broader reflections on human-non-human dynamics. Under Flanney and O’Brien’s careful editorship, this volume offers a historical coverage spanning from the medieval period up to contemporary Irish culture and society, providing original and nuanced readings of Irish cultural texts and personalities.

This book is an ideal resource for postgraduates and academics studying and researching English, Irish and Cultural Studies, particularly through the lens of Animal Studies or, more broadly, ecotheoretical perspectives.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Flannery, Eóin

O'Brien, Eugene

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Chapter 1. Marine Ecologies of Irish Literature  Chapter 2. “He shoos a goose”: Welcoming the ‘Protected’ Geese of Scott McKendry’s GUB  Chapter 3. Animals and Sound in Medieval Irish Poetry  Chapter 4. “Fish cannot be metaphorical”: Salmon, Trout, and Herring in the Irish Literary Imagination  Chapter 5. “Being human never did.any good”: Redefining Society in Sara Baume’s Spill Simmer Falter Wither  Chapter 6. ‘Alone and Mirrored’: Seamus Heaney and Avian Alterity  Chapter 7. Absence and Extinction: The birds and the bees in contemporary Irish poetry’  Chapter 8. Rewilding the Irish Poem  Chapter 9. Queer Love, the Nonhuman Animal, and Anthropocenic Grief in Rosamund Taylor’s In Her Jaws  Chapter 10. Badgers in Ireland: An Interspecies Cultural Case Study  Chapter 11. The Human and the Animal: From Critical Anthropomorphism to Weak Humanism in Anne Haverty’s One Day as a Tiger and Sara Baume’s spill simmer falter wither  Chapter 12. “Mad About Birds”: Eamon Grennan’s There Now

Über Autor(innen)

Eóin Flannery is Associate Professor of English Literature in the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. He has published over 70 scholarly articles and book chapters, and is the author of 5 books, including Ireland and Ecocriticism (Routledge, 2016).

Eugene O’Brien is Professor of Contemporary English Literature and Theory and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature in Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. He is series editor of the Routledge Studies in Irish Literature series and author and co-editor of several books, including The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Century Irish Writing (co-edited with Anne Fogarty; Routledge, 2024) and Seamus Heaney and the Art of Translation (co-edited with Ian Hickey; Routledge, 2025).