Seamus Heaney

This New Casebook on Seamus Heaney follows the astonishingly rapid growth of a literary reputation. Using reviews as well as extended academic essays, it presents a debate to which the poet himself has made influential critical contributions and which changes direction with the publication of each new book of poems. In particular, the Casebook shows how a wide range of contemporary theoretical approaches have been brought into play as Heaney has become increasingly central for general readers of poetry, academics and students at school and university.>

List of contents

Acknowledgements
General Editors' Preface
Introduction; M.Allen
Growing Up: Review of Death of a Naturalist; C.Ricks
A Slow North-East Wind: Review of North; C.C.O'Brien
'Inner Emigre' or 'Artful Voyeur'? Seamus Heaney's North; E.Longley
Seamus Heaney: The Timorous and the Bold; S.Deane
Representation in Modern Irish Poetry; E.Hughes
The Mouth, the Meal and the Book: Review of Field Work; C.Ricks
Review of Field Work; T.Eagleton
Writing a Bare Wire: Station Island; N.Corcoran
The Government of the Tongue; S.Heaney
The Sign of the Cross: Review of The Government of the Tongue; T.Docherty
'Pap for the Dispossessed': Seamus Heaney and the Poetics of Identity; D.Lloyd
'Bog Queens': The Representation of Women in the Poetry of John Montague and Seamus Heaney; P.Coughlan
Anna; or Postmodernism, Landscape, Seamus Heaney; T.Docherty
The Distance Between: Seamus Heaney; S.Smith
Paradigms of Possibility: Seamus Heaney; R.Kirkland
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index.

About the author

Michael Allen

Product details

• Authors: Michael Allen
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.1997
• EAN: 9780333608869
• ISBN: 978-0-333-60886-9
• No. of pages: 279
• Series: New Casebooks; New Casebooks (Paperback); New Casebooks
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Ireland, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets, poem; poet; poetics; poetry; postmodernism