Publisher Description

An Origin Like Water: Poems 1967–1987 confirmed Eavan Boland's place at the forefront of modern Irish poetry. New Collected Poems now brings the record of her achievement up to date, adding material from her subsequent volumes and filling out key poems from the early years. Following the chronology of publication, the reader experiences the exhilarating sense of development, now incremental, now momentous. Boland's work traces a measured process of emancipation from conventions and stereotypes, writing now in a space she has cleared not by violent rejection, but by dialogue, critical engagement, and patient experimentation with form, theme, and language.

Author Biography

Eavan Boland (1944—2020) was the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry, including Outside History and several volumes of nonfiction, and was coeditor of the anthology The Making of Poem. Born in Dublin, Ireland, she was one of the foremost female voices in Irish literature. She received a Lannan Foundation Award and an American Ireland Fund Literary Award, among other honors. She taught at Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, Bowdoin College, and Stanford University, where she was the director of the creative writing program.

Review

"Boland's resilient braid of outspoken feminism with Irish identity has given her a following on both sides of the Atlantic…Here is the poet who learned from Adrienne Rich, among others, how to tackle big topics of loyalty, rebellion, descent and dissent." -- Publishers Weekly
"While still attuned to the silences of the past, Eavan Boland challenges us to accept the consequences of female mastery, as she explores ways of writing about purpose and continuity, success and certainty." -- Times Literary Supplement
"The finest evidence ever assembled of the escape from the grip of a tradition. If the procedure of Art is to resist the real while conferring unity upon it, then Eavan Boland, in resisting male histories, has conferred a new meaning upon the phrase 'Irish poetry.' How blessed we all are that she abandoned swans." -- Irish Times
"Eavan Boland lives in a different world, one from which she can see not only 'the Dublin mountains,' but a looming poetic tradition and the wastes of European history." -- New York Times Book Review

Long Description

Der Berufsschulreligionsunterricht (BRU) hat seinen spezifischen Ort in der Berufsbildung und leistet einen eigenstandigen Beitrag zur Erlangung einer umfassenden beruflichen Handlungsfahigkeit. Besonders die nachlassende Orientierungsfunktion des Berufes als Leitkategorie des menschlichen Lebens ist eine grosse theologische Herausforderung fur den BRU - bietet aber zugleich neue Moglichkeiten fur dessen Gestaltung. Berufsbildung und Allgemeinbildung gehoren integrativ zusammen: Eine Allgemeinbildung ohne berufliche Fokussierung droht perspektivlos zu werden, wahrend eine Berufsbildung ohne Einbeziehung der Auszubildenden als Personlichkeiten Gefahr lauft, leblos zu werden. Eine Bildung im BRU, die diese beiden Aspekte integriert, zielt auf eine Entwicklung der Auszubildenden zu einer mundigen Personlichkeit und ermutigt zur Gestaltung des Lebens im beruflichen, privaten und gesellschaftlichen Kontext. Dieser Band zeigt die Notwendigkeit eines integrativen Berufsbildungsunterrichts auf und entwirft Leitlinien fur dessen didaktische Praxis. Religious Education in colleges has a specific place within Further Education and provides a contribution in its own right for an all round professional ability. A great theological challenge for RE in FE is the ever decreasing purpose of the 'profession' as a guide for life. In reflecting on one's own reasonable life style, its environment and society in general it enables RE in FE to come into its own and offer a specific theological topic. Further Education and General Knowledge belong together in an integrated way: General Knowledge without any professional focus tends to lose its perspective in the same way that vocational training without the inclusion of the personality of the trainee is in danger of becoming lifeless. The aim of the integrated process in vocational training is to strengthen the individual 's abilities. An integrated education aspires to the overall training of students which is aimed at developing mature personalities and an active life style in the professional, private and the wider social context. An understanding of integrated training evens out social differences and offers a contribution to a higher educational justice.

Review Text

"Boland's resilient braid of outspoken feminism with Irish identity has given her a following on both sides of the Atlantic. . . . Here is the poet who learned from Adrienne Rich, among others, how to tackle big topics of loyalty, rebellion, descent and dissent."

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"While still attuned to the silences of the past, Eavan Boland challenges us to accept the consequences of female mastery, as she explores ways of writing about purpose and continuity, success and certainty."

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