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Poets and partitions : confronting communal identities in Northern Ireland
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Poets and partitions : confronting communal identities in Northern Ireland / Jon Curley.
ISBN
9781845194291 (hc : alk. paper)
1845194292 (hc : alk. paper)
Published
Brighton ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2011.
Physical Description
viii, 215 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 27, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: casting eyes northwards
Northern Irish quandaries and critiques
Ciphers, fences, and dark figures: indeterminacy and legitimacy in John Hewitt
More protestant prototypes: the disinherited homelands of Louis MacNeice and W.R. Rodgers
The poetics of violence and the problem of tradition:
Limits, dilemmas, difficulties in representing the troubles
Seamus Heaney's north: mythic economies and the troubles
The flux of sensation and crisis: Derek Mahon's occupied spaces
Rosetta stones and blarney stones: the trickster's code
In the northern script of Ciaran Carson and Paul Muldoon
Epilogue: partition/prophecy: troubles poetry at its end?
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