Modern Poetry and Ethnography : Yeats, Frost, Warren, Heaney, and the Poet as Anthropologist /

Modern Poetry and Ethnography: Yeats, Frost, Warren, Heaney, and the Poet as Anthropologist maps a new approach to the works of W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, and Seamus Heaney. Heuston analyzes the ways the works of each writer represent and explain a country or region (Ireland for Y...

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Main Author:	Heuston, Sean, 1971-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	English poetry > Irish authors > History and criticism. Literature and anthropology. English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism. English poetry > 20th century > History and criticism. American poetry > 19th century > History and criticism. American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism. American poetry > Irish American authors. Anthropology in literature. Ethnology in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.

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Summary:	Modern Poetry and Ethnography: Yeats, Frost, Warren, Heaney, and the Poet as Anthropologist maps a new approach to the works of W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, and Seamus Heaney. Heuston analyzes the ways the works of each writer represent and explain a country or region (Ireland for Yeats, New England for Frost, the American South for Warren, and Northern Ireland for Heaney) as if the writers were anthropologists or ethnographers. This project argues provocatively that literary critics can benefit greatly from the insights and theories of anthropology and ethnography.
Physical Description:	xii, 195 pages ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780230111677 (hardback) 023011167X (hardback)