Seamus Heaney's Mythmaking (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hickey, Ian; Howley, Ellen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Seamus Heaney's Mythmaking examines Seamus Heaney's poetic engagement with myth from his earliest work to the posthumous publication of Aeneid Book VI. The essays explore the ways in which Heaney creates his own mythic outlook through multiple mythic lenses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000867275
• Artikelnr.: 67654173

Autorenporträt

Ian Hickey is a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature, Mary Immaculate College. He also works in the Irish Institute for Catholic Studies in Mary Immaculate College. His first monograph Haunted Heaney: Spectres and the Poetry was published by Routledge in 2021 and was joint winner of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies Monograph Prize. He has published numerous journal articles on the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Brendan Behan and twenty-first-century Irish writing, as well as on Benjamin Zephaniah in Spoken Word in the UK. He is currently writing his second monograph entitled Fragmentation: Twenty-First Century Irish Poetry and Fiction. Ellen Howley is Assistant Professor at the School of English, Dublin City University. She has published work in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Comparative Literature and Irish Studies Review on Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and M. NourbeSe Philip, among others. She co-wrote, with Eugene McNulty, a chapter on Ireland for Europe in British Literature and Culture, edited by Petra Rau and Will Rossiter (Cambridge University Press). She is currently working on a monograph that examines how contemporary Irish and Caribbean poets write about the sea.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Seamus Heaney's Mythmaking
Ian Hickey & Ellen Howley
Transformations
1. 'Words that the rest of us can understand': Heaney and the Eclogue
Meg Tyler
2. "The Age of Ghosts" and "The Age of Births": Seamus Heaney's "Route
110" and Tesserae
Eugene O'Brien
3. Seamus Heaney's Shield of Perseus
Brendan Corcoran
Translations
4. Seamus Heaney and the Making of Sweeney Astray
Stephen Regan
5. 'Greek Gifts': Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy, Its Political
Contexts and Ethical Imperatives
Michael Parker
6. 'Always new to me, always familiar': mythical re-significations in
Heaney's diction and poetic depictions in Italian
Debora Biancheri
Transnationalism
7. 'Mythologized, Demythologized': Heaney, Lowell and Becoming-Trickster
in Field Work
Michael Hinds
8. Seamus Heaney: The Burdens and Benefits of Gift - Giving
Henry Hart
9. Mythic Water in Seamus Heaney's Poetry
Ellen Howley
Transitions
10. Dante, Heaney and the Hauntological
Ian Hickey
11. Crossing the Threshold to the Underworld in Heaney's Late Poetry
Joanne Piavanini
12. Self-Elegy from Afar: Emptiness and Anabasis in Seamus Heaney's Late
Work
Magdalena Kay