Haunted Heaney : spectres and the poetry

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Title
"Haunted Heaney : spectres and the poetry"
Statement of Responsibility
Ian Hickey
Publisher
  • Routledge
Publication Year
  • 2022 [i.e. 2021]
Book size
24 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hbk

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Summary: "Haunted Heaney: Spectres and the Poetry looks at the ghosts and spectres present within the poetry of the Nobel prize winning poet Seamus Heaney. Covering Heaney's work from his first collection, Death of a Naturalist, to his final collection, Human Chain, this volume analyses Heaney's poetry through the lens of hauntology as presented by Jacques Derrida in Specters of Marx. This book presents spectres and ghosts not in the conventional sense, as purely supernatural, physical manifestations haunting a place, but instead as having a non-physical presence. In this sense past cultures, societies, texts, poets, and memories are examined as having a spectral influence on Heaney's writing. His work is indebted to hauntedness as the past in all its forms sutures itself within the present of his thinking and writing, and our reading of the poetry. Topics for discussion include the Norse spectres in the early poetry; British colonialism and its haunting influence on the poet ..."

Includes bibliographical references and index

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