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23%OFFEugene O´brien - Seamus Heaney: Searches for Anwers - 9780745317342 - V9780745317342
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Seamus Heaney: Searches for Anwers

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Description for Seamus Heaney: Searches for Anwers Paperback. The first critical guide to all Seaums Heaney's writings -- poetry, prose and translations. Arranged thematically. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Pluto Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745317342
SKU
V9780745317342
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About Eugene O´brien
Eugene O'Brien is Head of the English Language & Literature department at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. He is the author of Seamus Heaney and the Place of Writing (Pluto Press, 2003).

Reviews for Seamus Heaney: Searches for Anwers
'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

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