Northern Irish Poetry and Theology [electronic resource] /
McConnell, G.author.
Northern Irish Poetry and Theology argues that theology shapes subjectivity, language and poetic form, and provides original studies of three internationally acclaimed poets: Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon.
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Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Religion and Identity Politics in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry: The Critical Landscape; 2 ''Its flesh was sweet / Like thickened wine'': Iconography and Sacramentalism in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney; 3 ''A hole / In the cathedral wall'': Iconoclasm and Catechism in the Poetry of Michael Longley; 4 ''The only way out of ""the tongue-tied profanity""'': Calvinism, Rupture and Revision in the Poetry of Derek Mahon; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Northern Irish Poetry and Theology argues that theology shapes subjectivity, language and poetic form, and provides original studies of three internationally acclaimed poets: Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon.
Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013
Longley, Michael, 1939-
Mahon, Derek, 1941-
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Religion.
Poetry.
Literature—Philosophy.
British literature.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Religious Studies, general.
Poetry and Poetics.
Literary Theory.
British and Irish Literature.
Cultural Theory.