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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Station Island"”.
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'Protective colouring' : the political commitment in the poetry of Seamus Heaney
… terror and counter-terror.On his pilgrimage to Station Island Heaney becomes aware of conflicting influences and, adopting the protective colouring of Sweeney, he attempts to fly free of all obligations and to "strike his own note" The parables of The Haw Lantern document a more realistic …
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"Feathered Glory": A Poet in Flight from Medieval Ireland to the Twentieth Century
… Heaney's volumes <em>Sweeney Astray</em> and <em>Station Island</em>, and the unfinished play <em>Sweeney Agonistes</em> as well as four poems by T. S. Eliot that feature the character Sweeney, who bears a significant thematic resemblance to the medieval Suibhne.</p> <p>While these texts vary …
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Storytellers in fallen worlds: the metaphysical longings of crime fiction detectives
The thesis examines how I might deploy the postmodern approaches of the metaphysical detective novel to represent a divided society’s quest to understand itself in the context of the Northern Ireland Troubles. Wary of the pitfalls of applying the certainties of traditional detective fiction to …