Singing Contest - Conventions of Sound in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney

Informationen zum Autor Margaret B. Tyler is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at the College of General Studies, Boston University. She has published prose (book reviews) and poetry in The Kenyon Review , Agni , The Harvard Review , Del Sol Review , among other journals. Klappentext Incorporating readings of Heaney's elegies! pastoral eclogues and sonnets! this book presents a formal analysis which comprises close readings of Seamus Heaney's poetry. By a detailed structural analysis of diction! meter! imagery and generic form! it considers the interplay between different kinds of literary tradition and community in poetry. Zusammenfassung Incorporating readings of Heaney's elegies, pastoral eclogues and sonnets, this book presents a formal analysis which comprises close readings of Seamus Heaney's poetry. By a detailed structural analysis of diction, meter, imagery and generic form, it considers the interplay between different kinds of literary tradition and community in poetry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: From an 'I' to 'We' Chapter One: A Singing Contest Chapter Two: Making Small Chapter Three: The Faring Poets Chapter Four: The Wonder of Unexpected Supply Conclusion Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Meg Tyler, Tyler Meg
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.07.2005
• EAN: 9780415975391
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97539-1
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography, Literature and Literary studies