Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Seamus Heaney."”.
-
Seamus Heaney and American Poetry
This thesis seeks to understand Heaney’s relationship with the American tradition by close attention to his intertextual relations with the US writers who influenced him, alongside a consideration of those he elides – and the reasons for such elision. The chapters that follow will show how the …
-
Structures of belonging: the poetry of Seamus Heaney
… philosophical and cultural theory which bear on Seamus Heaney’s poetry. Rather than converging word and body through a utopic leap of faith (transubstantiation), poststructuralism (following Saussure) posits an irreconcilable interstice between signifier and signified and (in the language of …
-
'Protective colouring' : the political commitment in the poetry of Seamus Heaney
There is a tension in Seamus Heaney's poetry between his desire to escape from the Northern Troubles into a private domestic world, and the political responsibilities he has towards his Catholic community. He tries to reconcile the demands of politics and art by concealing his political message …
-
The Signatory Imagination: James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Don DeLillo
… in the world. In Joyce's wake, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, and Don DeLillo all produce texts that both engage with Joyce's novels and think carefully about the potential of the signature as a material object. My first chapter, 'James Joyce's Signatures', explores how nineteenth-century …
-
Witness to woundedness in the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Natasha Trethewey, and Derek Walcott.
In this dissertation I explore how Seamus Heaney, Natasha Trethewey, and Derek Walcott poetically bear witness to historical wounds expressed on both personal and collective levels. I first focus on how in North (1975) Heaney explores the sectarian violence of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and …
-
Myths of place : the importance of landscape in the poetries of W.H. Auden and Seamus Heaney
… and contemporary poetry. Works on Auden and Heaney make reference to local elements, but do not consider the overall and continuous importance of landscape in their writings. It is hoped that this study goes some way towards remedying these deficiencies.The philosophical and imaginative …
-
Recovering the roots: exploring myth, rural life, and the pastoral in W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney
Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.
-
"What was repeated had weight" : ordinary rituals in the poetry of Donald Hall, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Louise Glück.
… in the poetry of Donald Hall, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Louise Glück. Their poetic speakers perform ordinary rituals as a response to the difficult, wounding situations they face, including losses of family members (Hall), racial tensions that span generations (Walcott), political …
-
Dantean reverberations: four readers of Dante in the Twentieth century: a study on the Dantes of Primo Levi, Edoardo Sanguineti, Samuel Beckett, and Seamus Heaney
… the presence of Dante in Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney. In Beckett, a network of Dantean inclusions shows how Dante’s presence can be fertile, controversial, and yet apparently discarded. The last chapter discusses Seamus Heaney’s Dantisms and especially the question of translation as both …
-
Threshold
… on the esteemed voices of Robert Penn Warren and Seamus Heaney, two men whose poetry has been, and continues to be, highly influential in Leah’s own poetic quest.</p>
-
"Emblems of Adversity": W.B. Yeats's Poetics of Violence and Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry
… Poets from the North of Ireland such as Seamus Heaney and Nick Laird represent the dual legacy of W. B. Yeats’s poetics in a society where violence has been the norm. Yeats’s legacy influences both Heaney’s poetry that attempts to mitigate violence with art, and Laird’s poetry that …
-
What do you call this?
… giving it back to the reader, as the Irish poet Seamus Heaney writes, "with a clean new music in it". The Italian-Canadian identity of the poems--or its Italianita --is enacted either through autobiographical narrative or by mediating on certain relevant cultural and societal artifacts. The …
-
A Stepping Stone Rather Than a Destination: Analyzing Seamus Heaney's Pastoral
As an Irish farm boy turned educated poet, Seamus Heaney navigates a liminal space between the world of agriculture and the world of letters. Many of his poems draw upon his rural childhood experiences, infusing them with firsthand accounts of life on an Irish farm. As a result, most scholars label …
-
Forms of dissent in the work of James Simmons and Padraic Fiacc: poetry, politics, and publishing in Northern Ireland, 1960-1980
… between Simmons, Fiacc, and peers such as Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, and Michael Longley, and, drawing also on a wide range of archival material, seek to offer new ways of reading early work by each of these poets. <br/><br/>Focussing on the period 1960-1980, I survey the publication …
-
Disturbed Areas: Literature and Emergency Law in Kashmir and Northern Ireland
… fiction, poetry and film, from canonical poets Seamus Heaney and Agha Shahid Ali to contemporary works by Anna Burns, Mirza Waheed, and Bollywood filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj. I argue that the literary mode can act as one of many methods of political agitation, but one with a unique capacity to …
-
The Corncrake in the Aftergrass: poetry practice, cultures and contexts in post-conflict Northern Ireland
… drawing on the lives and works of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, and W.R. Rodgers. Their work serves as an overarching narrative to my life and work against the backdrop of conflict and post-conflict life in Northern Ireland. My primary sources are my poetry; I reflect on the …
Page 1 of 2