| Description |
1 online resource (279 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Irish Literature Series |
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Routledge Studies in Irish Literature Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Seamus Heaney's Mythmaking -- Works Cited -- Part I Transformations -- 1 'Words That the Rest of Us Can Understand': Heaney and the Eclogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 2 'The Age of Ghosts' and 'The Age of Births': Seamus Heaney's 'Route 110' and Tesserae -- Works Cited -- 3 Seamus Heaney's Shield of Perseus -- Section 1: Noli Timere -- Section 2: Something Fundamental -- Section 3: Perseus' Shield |
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Section 4: Tremor Poetry -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part II Translations -- 4 Seamus Heaney and the Making of Sweeney Astray -- Works Cited -- 5 'Greek Gifts': Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy, Its Political Contexts and Ethical Imperatives -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 6 'Always New to Me, Always Familiar': Mythical Re-Significations in Heaney's Diction and Poetic Depictions in Italian -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part III Transnationalism -- 7 'Mythologized, Demythologized': Heaney, Lowell and Becoming-Trickster in Field Work -- Follow the Rat -- Husbands, Wives and Skunks -- 'Turn the Talk' |
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Notes -- Works Cited -- 8 Seamus Heaney: The Burdens and Benefits of Gift-Giving -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 9 Mythic Water in Seamus Heaney's Poetry -- Poetry and Water: Making the Myth of the Poet -- Gendering Water -- Rivers and Wells: The Classics and Northern Ireland -- Sailing to Station Island -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part IV Transitions -- 10 Dante, Heaney and the Hauntological -- Works Cited -- 11 Crossing the Threshold to the Underworld in Heaney's Late Poetry -- 'Dwelling With and Imagining in Terms of Those Archetypal Patterns': Thresholds in the 'Squarings' Sequence |
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'The Golden Bough, Charon's Barge, the Quest to Meet the Shade of the Father': Crossing to Virgil's Underworld -- 'It Was the Age of Ghosts': 'Route 110' and Aeneid VI -- 'Light Has Gone Out But the Door Stands Open' -- On the Death of Csezlaw Milosz -- Works Cited -- 12 Self-Elegy From Afar: Emptiness and Anabasis in Seamus Heaney's Late Work -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Howley, Ellen
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| ISBN |
9781000867275 |
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1000867277 |
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