Poets and partitions
Subtitle: confronting communal identities in Northern Ireland
By: Jon Curley
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Portland, Or
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845194291
Subjects: Politics and literature; Literature and society; History and criticism; Group identity in literature; English poetry; In literature; Irish authors; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: casting eyes northwards; title: Northern Irish quandaries and critiques; title: Ciphers, fences, and dark figures: indeterminacy and legitimacy in John Hewitt; title: More protestant prototypes: the disinherited homelands of Louis MacNeice and W.R. Rodgers; title: The poetics of violence and the problem of tradition:; title: Limits, dilemmas, difficulties in representing the troubles; title: Seamus Heaney's north: mythic economies and the troubles; title: The flux of sensation and crisis: Derek Mahon's occupied spaces; title: Rosetta stones and blarney stones: the trickster's code; title: In the northern script of Ciaran Carson and Paul Muldoon; title: Epilogue: partition/prophecy: troubles poetry at its end?