University of Szczecin, Poland, Department of English,
Redefining the Fringes in Celtic Studies. Essays in Literature and Culture, 2019
This chapter presents a close reading and analysis of a single poem, "ScnØd: míniú," by Gabriel Rosenstock. The poem is read against the background of the decline of the Irish language, even as it remains an important marker of national identity with a substantial symbolic and culture-forming role. The efficacy and the ambiguity of the Irish language in playing this role, Gawlik argues, is the subject matter of this poem, which also explores issues of untranslatability.
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