“Suspended between the Two Worlds”: Gestation Metaphors and Representations of Childbirth in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: Introduction The representation of childbirth in writing is challenging, due, on the one hand, to a tradition that has appropriated simplified images of gestation and birth to describe the writer’s creative process and, on the other hand, because of the sheer extremity of the act of parturition. In a letter to his wife Nora written in 1912,
Source: Estudios Irlandeses
DOI: 10.24162/ei2010-2253
Authors: NUI Galway, Katharina Walter
Institution: Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W85949401