Confounded Language: Images by Noel Connor - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852241438 ISBN 13 : 9781852241438

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1991

Synopsis

Before Babel 'the whole earth was one language and one speech.' Noel Connor's recent visual work explores this idea of an original language, an innocent tongue and its subsequent evolution and disintegration. His images in Confounded Language are a response to the work of nine Irish poets who develop this theme through their own concerns. Connor's pictures first scrutinise then obliterate the text and destroy its meaning, before recomposing the image as a counterpoint to the original poem, taking their cue from Samuel Beckett's Molloy: 'You could do no better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is blank and flat and the whole ghastly business looks like what it is, senseless, speechless, issueless misery.' But Connor confounds Beckett's black view of language with a series of startling images that are more mischievous than miserable, more ghostly than ghastly, while the poems give voice to the power and eloquence of language. The poets are: Gerald Dawe, Michael Foley, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, John Montague, Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Frank Ormsby.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852241438
• ISBN 13: 9781852241438
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 48
• Éditeur: Connor Noel
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible