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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Seamus Heaney. Newark : University of Delaware Press, c1996 (OCoLC)603915627 |
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| Named Person: | Seamus Heaney; Seamus Heaney; Seamus Heaney; Seamus Heaney |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Catharine Malloy; Phyllis Carey |
| ISBN: | 0874135818 9780874135817 |
| OCLC Number: | 33105086 |
| Description: | 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Powers of earth and visions of air / Seamus Deane -- Moments of misremembrance : a poem and its audiences / John R. Boly -- "Inscribed in sheets" : Seamus Heaney's scribal matrix / Rand Brandes -- Seamus Heaney's anti-transcendental corncrake / Jonathan Allison -- Fusions in Heaney's North / David Lloyd -- Violence and the sacred in Seamus Heaney's North / Charles L. O'Neill -- "Station Island" and the poet's progress / Sammye Crawford Greer -- Aesthetic and cultural memory in Joyce and Heaney / Michael Patrick Gillespie -- Heaney and Havel : parables of politics / Phyllis Carey -- Seamus Heaney's Seeing things : "retracing the path back ..." / Catharine Malloy -- Ways of Seeing things / Darcy O'Brien. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Catharine Malloy and Phyllis Carey. |
Abstract:
This collection of current, critical essays explores Irish poet Seamus Heaney's aesthetic consciousness as it fuses a variety of discourses into revelatory poetic texts. The collection differs from previous volumes in that its essays, while offering a wide variety of approaches, all concern themselves with the central critical issue of Heaney's artistic "shaping." Arranged loosely in a chronological pattern corresponding to Heaney's poetic career, the essays offer insights into concerns ranging from Heaney's reshaping of the mythological, to his use of individual images, to the influence of such "mentors" as Dante and Joyce, to Heaney's attempts to shape the numinous, to his unique rendering of the words of others through translation.
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