Seamus Heaney

Poet, Critic, Translator
2007. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-349-28111-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

This volume of twelve essays aims to comprehensively represent the abundance and variety of both Heaney's writing and scholarship on Heaney's writing. Attention is given not only to his poetry but also to his translations and his prose. The essays foreground his internationalism and the complementary international interest in his writing.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hall, J.

Crowder, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; A.B.Crowder & J.D.Hall Seamus Heaney and the Modern Irish Elegy; S.Regan Poems without Frontiers: Poetic Reception and Political Possibility in the Work of Seamus Heaney; R.Rankin Russell "A Meaning Made of Trees": The Unwriting of a Symbol; C.McKenna Reading Heaney Reading; S.Burris Heaney and the Functions of Prose; M.Baron The "Upward Waft": The Influence of Frost and Eliot on Heaney's Later Phase; D.Ross The Way via Warsaw: Seamus Heaney and Post-War Polish Poets; J.Jarniewicz The Cure at Troy: Sophocles or Heaney?; P.Turner Putting a Bawn into Beowulf; A.Finlay Remember Everything': Things Past in Station Island; J.Brooker "The cure by poetry that cannot be coerced': Text, Canon and Context in Electric Light; R.Moi Literary Allusions, Appropriations and Assimilations; B.Hardy Index

Über Autor(innen)

MICHAEL BARON Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
JOSEPH BROOKER Teaches Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
SIDNEY BURRIS Professor of English, University of Arkansas, USA and Director of the Fulbright College Honors Program
ALISON FINLAY Teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
BARBARA HARDY Professor Emerita, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
JERZY JARNIEWICZ Professor in the Department of Literature, University of Lodz, Poland
COLLEEN MCKENNA Member of the faculty at University College, London, UK
RUBEN MOI Head of Department of English, Harstad College, Norway
STEPHEN REGAN Professor of English, University of Durham, UK
RICHARD RANKIN RUSSELL Assistant Professor of English, Baylor University, USA
DANIEL W. ROSS Professor of English at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia, USA
PAUL TURNER Formerly University Lecturer in the English Faculty, Oxford University, UK