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A critical guide to Seamus Heaney's writings



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'Explores Heaney's aeshetics, politics, language, myth, ethics, identity and notions of being Irish as these aspects show themselves in his poetry, prose and translations' -- Ireland of the Welcomes

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. ‘Preoccupying Questions’: Heaney’s Prose
2. ‘Continuous Adjudication’: Binary Oppositions and the Field of Force
3. ‘Writing in the Sand’: Poetry and Transformation
4. ‘Surviving Amphibiously’: Poetry and Politics
5. ‘A Bright Nowhere’: The Deconstruction of Place
6. ‘Through-Otherness’: The Deconstruction of Language
7. Nobel Causes: Heaney and Yeats
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index

Seamus Heaney Searches For Answers

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      Publisher: Pluto Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/10/2003
      ISBN13: 9780745317342, 978-0745317342
      ISBN10: 0745317340

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A critical guide to Seamus Heaney's writings



      Trade Review
      'Explores Heaney's aeshetics, politics, language, myth, ethics, identity and notions of being Irish as these aspects show themselves in his poetry, prose and translations' -- Ireland of the Welcomes

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements
      Introduction
      1. ‘Preoccupying Questions’: Heaney’s Prose
      2. ‘Continuous Adjudication’: Binary Oppositions and the Field of Force
      3. ‘Writing in the Sand’: Poetry and Transformation
      4. ‘Surviving Amphibiously’: Poetry and Politics
      5. ‘A Bright Nowhere’: The Deconstruction of Place
      6. ‘Through-Otherness’: The Deconstruction of Language
      7. Nobel Causes: Heaney and Yeats
      Conclusion
      Works Cited
      Index

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