![]() ![]() Poetry by Women in Ireland: A Critical Anthology 1870–1970 provides a rich back history and set of conversations for The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry, which contextualizes the last forty-six years of Irish women's poetry. This cultural (and legal) shift will be examined in terms of the renunciation of enjoyment inherent in this new national imagery, and in relation to the redemptive potential of the image of woman as mother themes which appear significant in relation to post-colonial political formations generally, and to post-independence Irish political discourse in particular.These two important anthologies are perfect companions to one another and together form a continuous selection of poetry from 1870 to today, with a negligible overlap of three years. The predominance of the image of woman as mother in the Constitution, in contrast to her appearance in pre-independence nationalist discourse (where she regularly figured as a combination of mother, helpless maiden, seductress and destroyer) will be examined in terms of the Lacanian themes of Lack and jouissance (or enjoyment). Particular attention will be paid to the image of woman as a representation of the nation in the 1937 Constitution, and to the context of Irish nationalist discourse generally, where she repeatedly appears in the archetypal forms of either mother or virgin. In this move, the historical legitimacy of the new state could be defined through the constitution by an appropriation of diverse symbols from an imagined past, a golden age of Gaelic unity and moral certainties. This article examines the ``hidden'''' ideological appeal which the 1937 Irish Constitution attempted to make by the invocation of the rural ideal, a hybrid of Irish nationalism, Catholicism and, most importantly, Gaelic romanticism. The inward turn: consciousness and the text John Hartley: After Ongism: The Evolution of Networked Intelligence Social sciences, philosophy, biblical studies 7. ![]() The 'round' character, writing and print Part 7: Some theorems 1. Closure of plot: travelogue to detective story 5. Post-typography: electronics Part 6: Oral memory, the story line and characterization 1. Hearing-dominance yields to sight-dominance 2. Tenaciousness of orality Part 5: Print, space and closure 1. Interactions: rhetoric and the places 11. Distance, precision, grapholects and magnavocabularies 10. Words are not signs Part 4: Writing restructures consciousness 1. ![]() The noetic role of heroic 'heavy' figures and of the bizarre 16. Empathetic and participatory rather than objectively distanced 11. Further characteristics of orally based thought and expression 4. You know what you can recall: mnemonics and formulas 3. Consequent and related work Part 3: Some psychodynamics of orality 1. Did you say 'oral literature'? Part 2: The modern discovery of primary oral cultures 1. John Hartley: Before Ongism: "To become what we want to be, we have to decide what we were" Orality & Literacy: The Technologization Of The Word Introduction Part 1: The orality of language 1. ![]()
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