Knowing one's place in contemporary Irish and Polish poetry
Subtitle: Zagajewski, Mahon, Heaney, Hartwig
By: Magdalena Kay
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781441116420
Subjects: Self in literature; History and criticism; Polish poetry; Irish authors; English poetry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The margins of Europe: a new comparison; title: The dynamic ideal and the protean self: Adam Zagajewski; title: Figuring otherness in the work of Adam Zagajewski; title: Belonging on the edge: Derek Mahon's outsider poetics; title: Inhabiting the earth: Derek Mahon's dissonances and harmonies; title: Belonging as mastery in the poetry of Seamus Heaney; title: Examining the structures of selfhood: Seamus Heaney; title: Holding one's self outside: Julia Hartwig; title: Learning to speak from inside: Julia Hartwig; title: Conclusion: Knowing one's self.