An edition of Poets and partitions
(2011)
Poets and partitions
confronting communal identities in Northern Ireland
by Jon Curley
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Summary:Offers a comprehensive analysis of Northern Irish poetry focusing on the colonial, political, and cultural underpinnings that have shaped artistic expression in a variety of ways. This book also focuses on both the better-known contemporary Northern Irish poets as well as their more obscure but no less significant counterparts.
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Politics and literature, Literature and society, History and criticism, Group identity in literature, English poetry, In literature, Irish authors, History, English poetry, irish authors, history and criticism, English poetry, history and criticism, 21st centuryPlaces
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Poets and partitions: confronting communal identities in Northern Ireland
2011, Sussex Academic Press
in English
1845194292 9781845194291
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Table of 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?
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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