“Single Out the Devalued”: The Figure of the Nonhuman Animal in Eavan Boland’s Poetry
Boland has argued that “good nature poets are always subversive” and, though she did not identify as a nature poet, she compares her praxis to theirs: “their lexicon is the overlooked and the disregarded. . . . They single out the devalued and make a deep, metaphorical relation between it and some d...
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Associação Brasileira de Estudos Irlandeses
2021-05-01
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| Series: | ABEI Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://www.revistas.usp.br/abei/article/view/197751 |