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Literary Criticism
Writing Lough Derg: From William Carleton to Seamus Heaney
Writing Lough Derg: From William Carleton to Seamus Heaney
O'Brien, Peggy
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The overarching purpose of this volume is to show how a discrete tradition of writing about Lough Derg, a pilgrimage site in northwest Ireland, helped contemporary Irish poets rescue free, metaphysical inquiry from the grip of nationalism. Linked with the supernatural pagan times, Lough Derg had by the early twentieth century become an icon of the fusion of the Catholic Church and the Irish nation. Surveying treatments of Lough Derg from William Carleton through Denis Devlin, Patrick Kavanaugh, and ultimately Seamus Heaney, Peggy O'Brien addresses the role of spirituality in an increasingly cosmopolitan, postmodern, post-Catholic Ireland. Her extended treatment of Heaney culminates in an insightful juxtaposition with the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, who also struggled with the conflation of Catholicism and patriotism.
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SYRACUSE UNIV PR
Bisac Major Subject
Literary Criticism
Bisac Minor Subject
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Binding Type
Paperback
Country Of Origin
US
Number Of Units
1
Length
10.1 Inches
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Width
7.08 Inches
Publication Date
1970-01-01
Height
0.72 Inches
ISBN 10
0815630980
Weight
1.33 Pounds
Book EAN
9780815630982
Target Audiance
Adults
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