“Suspended between the Two Worlds”
Gestation Metaphors and Representations of Childbirth in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21187002 |
|---|---|
| Authors | NUI Galway (Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway, corresponding author), Katharina Walter (0009-0007-8042-1145, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 102-112 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Estudios Irlandeses (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1699-311X • E-ISSN: 1699-311X |
| Publisher | Estudios Irlandeses (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.24162/ei2010-2253 |
| OpenAlex | W85949401 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
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
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |