Northern Irish Poetry and the Russian Turn - Intertextuality in Work of Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin Medbh Mcguckian

Informationen zum Autor STEPHANIE SCHWERTER teaches translation studies and comparative literature at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and chairs the German-French translation programme at the Fondation Maison des sciences de l'Homme in Paris, France. Before moving to France in 2008, she lived in Northern Ireland and worked at the University of Ulster and at Queen's University Belfast. Klappentext Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian are the three most influential poets from Northern Ireland who have composed poems with a link to the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union. Through their references to Russia the three poets achieve a geographical and mental detachment allowing them to turn a fresh eye on the Northern Irish situation. Zusammenfassung Seamus Heaney! Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian are the three most influential poets from Northern Ireland who have composed poems with a link to the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union. Through their references to Russia the three poets achieve a geographical and mental detachment allowing them to turn a fresh eye on the Northern Irish situation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 'And every evening surprised I was still alive I repeated verses' 'No Vodka, Aquavit or Uisquebaugh': The Russian-Irish Connection in the Work of Seamus Heaney 'Punching Holes in History': Tom Paulin's Interest in Russia The Russian Dimension in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian: 'My words are traps through which you pick your way' Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Introduction: 'And every evening surprised I was still alive I repeated verses' 'No Vodka, Aquavit or Uisquebaugh': The Russian-Irish Connection in the Work of Seamus Heaney 'Punching Holes in History': Tom Paulin's Interest in Russia The Russian Dimension in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian: 'My words are traps through which you pick your way' Conclusion Bibliography Index

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• Authors: S Schwerter, S. Schwerter, Stephanie Schwerter, SCHWERTER STEPHANIE
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.02.2013
• EAN: 9781137271716
• ISBN: 978-1-137-27171-6
• No. of pages: 261
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, World Literature, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Postcolonial/World Literature