Through the mythographer's eye
Subtitle: myth and legend in the work of Seamus Heaney and Eavan Boland
By: Sabina J. Müller.
Series: Schweizer anglistische Arbeiten -- Bd. 134 = -- Swiss studies in English -- Bd. 134; Schweizer anglistische Arbeiten -- Bd. 134.
Publisher: Francke
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9783772082153
Subjects: Heaney, Seamus, -- 1939- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Boland, Eavan -- Criticism and interpretation.; Mythology in literature.
Notes: Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Zürich, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-287) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Theories of myth; title: The goddess and the land. Seamus Heaney: the bog poems ; Eavan Boland: I am not Ireland ; Conclusion; title: The journey to the underworld. Seamus Heaney: St. Patrick's purgatory ; Eavan Boland: the journey ; Conclusion; title: Muses, wells, precursors: probing into male and female creativity. Seamus Heaney: towards a new source of inspiration ; Eavan Boland: from muse to poet ; Conclusion; title: Eavan Boland: the mother-daughter story; title: Conclusion.