Seamus Heaney by Eugene Obrien
Thematically arranged and clearly structured, this book explores the seminal themes in Heaney's writing: aesthetics, politics, language, identity and myth, ethics and notions of Irishness. A central strand of this study is an exploration of Heaney's ethical and political project with respect to issues of Irish identity as outlined in his writings. This work suggests that there are analogies between Heaney's political and ethical thought, and that of Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas. Each chapter concentrates on a single theme: his sense of the aesthetic, and its role in terms of politics and ethics; his relationship with politics as a contemporary situation; his notion of place, both as a given, and as something that could be reimagined; his enunciation of a sense of visceral identity; his concept of ethics in terms of a relationship between selfhood and alterity; his notion of the many threads which combine to produce a sense of Irishness. Finally, the Nobel lectures of Yeats and Heaney are examined in order to trace the complex relationship between these two writers.
'Explores Heaney's aeshetics, politics, language, myth, ethics, identity and notions of being Irish as these aspects show themselves in his poetry, prose and translations' -- Ireland of the Welcomes
Eugene O'Brien is senior lecturer in the English Department and director of the Institute for Irish Studies at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Seamus Heaney as Aesthetic Thinker: A Study of the Prose and Seamus Heaney: Creating Irelands of the Mind. Contributors: Eugene O'Brien, Andrew J. Auge, Magdalena Kay, Helen Vendler, Michael Molino, Neil Corcoran, Meg Tyler, Michael Parker, Elmer Kennedy-Andrews, Bernard O'Donoghue, Henry Hart, Richard Rankin Russell, Stephen Regan, Moynagh Sullivan, Daniel Tobin, and Rand Brandes.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780745317342 |
| ISBN 10 | 0745317340 |
| Title | Seamus Heaney |
| Author | Eugene Obrien |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pluto Press |
| Year published | 2003-12-20 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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