Search Results - "Seamus Heaney"

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

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Seamus Heaney's early work poetic responsibility and the troubles / by Xerri, Daniel

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Melodies Unheard : Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry / by Hecht, Anthony, 1923-2004

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare and the sonnet -- The sonnet: ruminations on form, sex, and history -- Sidney and the sestina -- On Henry Noel's "Gaze not on swans" -- Technique in Housman -- On Hopkins' "The Wreck of the Deutschland" -- Uncle Tom's shantih -- Paralipomena to The Hidden law -- On Robert Frost's "The Wood-pile" -- Two poems by Elizabeth Bishop -- Richard Wilbur: an introduction -- Yehuda Amichai -- Charles Simic -- Seamus Heaney's prose -- Moby-Dick -- St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians -- On rhyme -- The music of forms.…”
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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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Poetry and displacement by Smith, Stan, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…: Carol Ann Duffy's Différance -- Darkening English : post-imperial contestations in Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott -- Living in history -- An age of simulation : tall tales and short stories -- Nowhere anyone would like to get to -- Milking the cow of the world : displacement displaced.…”
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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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Breaking the mould literary representations of Irish Catholicism /

Table of Contents: “…"Any Catholics among you ...?": Seamus Heaney and the Real of Catholicism / EUGENE O'BRIEN -- "Hopping Round Knock Shrine in the Falling Rain": Revision and Catholicism in the Poetry of Paul Durcan / JOHN MCDONAGH -- "To sleep is safe, to dream is dangerous": Catholicism on Stage in Independent Ireland / VICTOR MERRIMAN -- Effing the Ineffable: Brian Friel's Wonderful Tennessee and the Interrogation of Transcendence / TONY CORBETT.…”
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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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