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Seamus Heaney as aesthetic thinker : a study of the prose /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Brien, Eugene, 1958- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Heaney, Seamus, > 1939-2013 > Criticism and interpretation.
Heaney, Seamus, > 1939-2013 > Aesthetics.
Aesthetics in literature.
Philosophy in literature.
Poetics.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the structure of poetic thinking
  • The poet as thinker, the thinker as poet
  • Space: the final frontier
  • The epistemology of poetry: fields of force
  • Poetics and politics: surviving amphibiously
  • The place of writing, the writing of place
  • Translations: the voice of the other
  • Conclusion: aesthetic responsibilities.