Search Results - "Seamus Heaney"

Seamus Heaney and the emblems of hope by Moloney, Karen Marguerite, 1951-

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"Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse" negotiating texts and contexts in contemporary Irish studies / by O'Brien, Eugene, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction negotiating texts and contexts -- Ireland in theory: the influence of French theory on Irish cultural and societal development -- The ethics of translation: Seamus Heaney's Cure at Troy and Beowulf -- The body politic: the ethics of responsibility and the responsibility of ethics in Seamus Heaney's The burial at Thebes -- "You can never know women": framing female identity in Dubliners -- The return and redefinition of the repressed: postcolonial studies and "Eveline" in Dubliners -- "Inner émigr'(s)": Derrida, Heaney, Yeats and the hauntological redefinition of Irishness -- "Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse": Catholicism, deconstruction and postmodernity in contemporary Irish culture -- "Guests (geists) of the nation": a Heimlich (unheimlich) manoeuvre -- Global warnings: towards a deconstruction of the global and the local -- "T siad ag teacht": Guinness as a signifier of Irish cultural transformation.…”
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Music and the Irish literary imagination by White, Harry

Table of Contents: “…Synge abandoned music -- Opera and drama : Bernard Shaw and "The brandy of the damned" -- The 'thought-tormented music' of James Joyce -- Words after music : Samuel Beckett after Joyce -- Operas of the Irish mind : Brian Friel and music -- Words alone : Seamus Heaney, music, and the jurisdiction of literary forms.…”
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Finding Ireland a poet's explorations of Irish literature and culture / by Tillinghast, Richard

Table of Contents: “…-- The uneasy world of Somerville and Ross -- Travels through Somerville and Ross's Ireland -- The asymmetrical George Moore -- Elizabeth Bowen : the house, the hotel, and the child -- William Trevor : "they were as good as we were" -- Listening to Irish traditional music -- Flann O'Brien : no laughing matter -- Brian Friel : transcending the Irish national pastime -- Seamus Heaney's "middle voice" -- Derek Mahon : exile and stranger -- The future of Irish poetry? …”
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Irish Literature Since 1990 : Diverse Voices /

Table of Contents: “…Representations of Irish political leaders in the 'Haughey' plays of Carr, Barry and Breen / Anthony Roche -- New articulations of Irishness and otherness on the contemporary Irish stage / Martine Pelletier -- Scattered and diverse: Irish poetry since 1990 / Jerzy Jarniewicz and John McDonagh -- Architectural metaphors: representations of the house in the poetry of Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin and Vona Groarke / Lucy Collins -- The places I go back to: familiarisation and estrangement in Seamus Heaney's later poetry / Joanna Cowper-- Neither here nor there: new generation Northern Irish poets (Sinead Morrissey and Nick Laird) / Michael Parker -- Tomorrow we will change our names, invent ourselves again: Irish fiction and autobiography since 1990 / Liam Harte -- Anne Enright and postnationalism in the contemporary Irish novel / Heidi Hansson -- Sacred spaces: writing home in recent Irish memoirs and autobiographies (John McGahern's Memoir, Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People, Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark, John Walsh's The Falling Angels) / Stephen Regan -- Secret gardens: unearthing the truth in Patrick O'Keeffe's The Hill Road / Vivian Valvano Lynch -- What's it like being Irish?…”
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