The Resource Seamus Heaney's Regions, Richard Rankin Russell
Seamus Heaney's Regions, Richard Rankin Russell
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- Summary
- "Regional voices from England, Ireland, and Scotland inspired Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel prize-winner, to become a poet, and his home region of Northern Ireland provided the subject matter for much of his poetry. In his work, Heaney explored, recorded, and preserved both the disappearing agrarian life of his origins and the dramatic rise of sectarianism and the subsequent outbreak of the Northern Irish "Troubles" beginning in the late 1960s. At the same time, Heaney consistently imagined a new region of Northern Ireland where the conflicts that have long beset it and, by extension, the relationship between Ireland and the United Kingdom might be synthesized and resolved. Finally, there is a third region Heaney committed himself to explore and map-the spirit region, that world beyond our ken. In Seamus Heaney's Regions, Richard Rankin Russell argues that Heaney's regions-the first, geographic, historical, political, cultural, linguistic; the second, a future where peace, even reconciliation, might one day flourish; the third, the life beyond this one-offer the best entrance into and a unified understanding of Heaney's body of work in poetry, prose, translations, and drama. As Russell shows, Heaney believed in the power of ideas-and the texts representing them-to begin resolving historical divisions. For Russell, Heaney's regionalist poetry contains a "Hegelian synthesis" view of history that imagines potential resolutions to the conflicts that have plagued Ireland and Northern Ireland for centuries. Drawing on extensive archival and primary material by the poet, Seamus Heaney's Regions examines Heaney's work from before his first published poetry volume, Death of a Naturalist in 1966, to his most recent volume, the elegiac Human Chain in 2010, to provide the most comprehensive treatment of the poet's work to date. "Richard Rankin Russell's Seamus Heaney's Regions is a major and original contribution; it is hard to think of another critical work on Heaney that is so complete in its coverage, from the earliest activities to Human Chain. Russell is extremely well-versed in Heaney's writings, and extends his analysis beyond the usual concentration on the poetry to bring in the crucial prose and dramatic works, including the early, largely forgotten items. The breadth of his approach makes his book of interest to scholars in such neighboring fields as social geography, history, and theology as well as contemporary literature."--Bernard O'Donoghue, Wadham College, University of Oxford"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Contents
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- The Development of Northern Irish Regionalism
- Recording Bigotry and Imagining a New Province: Heaney and BBC Northern Ireland Radio, 1968-73
- Heaney's Essays on Regional Writers: The 1970s
- Wounds and Fire: Northern Ireland in Heaney's 1970s Poetry
- Darkness Visible: Irish Catholicism, the American Civil Rights Movement, and the Blackness of "Strange Fruit"
- Border Crossings: Heaney's Prose Poems in Stations
- Joyce, Burns, and Holub: Heaney's Independent Regionalism in An Open Letter
- Affirming and Transcending Regionalism: Joyce, Dante, Eliot, and the Tercet Form in Station Island and The Haw Lantern
- The Northern Irish Context and Owen and Yeats
- Intertexts in The Cure at Troy
- Guttural and Global: Heaney's Regionalism after 1990
- "My Ship of Genius Now Shakes Out Her Sail": The Spirit Region and the Tercet in Seeing Things and Human Chain
- Visiting the Dead and Welcoming Newborns: Human Chain and Heaney's Three Regions
- Isbn
- 9780268158385
- Label
- Seamus Heaney's Regions
- Title
- Seamus Heaney's Regions
- Statement of responsibility
- Richard Rankin Russell
- Subject
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- English
- English Literature
- Heaney, Seamus, -- 1939-2013 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013
- Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
- Languages & Literatures
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Regional voices from England, Ireland, and Scotland inspired Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel prize-winner, to become a poet, and his home region of Northern Ireland provided the subject matter for much of his poetry. In his work, Heaney explored, recorded, and preserved both the disappearing agrarian life of his origins and the dramatic rise of sectarianism and the subsequent outbreak of the Northern Irish "Troubles" beginning in the late 1960s. At the same time, Heaney consistently imagined a new region of Northern Ireland where the conflicts that have long beset it and, by extension, the relationship between Ireland and the United Kingdom might be synthesized and resolved. Finally, there is a third region Heaney committed himself to explore and map-the spirit region, that world beyond our ken. In Seamus Heaney's Regions, Richard Rankin Russell argues that Heaney's regions-the first, geographic, historical, political, cultural, linguistic; the second, a future where peace, even reconciliation, might one day flourish; the third, the life beyond this one-offer the best entrance into and a unified understanding of Heaney's body of work in poetry, prose, translations, and drama. As Russell shows, Heaney believed in the power of ideas-and the texts representing them-to begin resolving historical divisions. For Russell, Heaney's regionalist poetry contains a "Hegelian synthesis" view of history that imagines potential resolutions to the conflicts that have plagued Ireland and Northern Ireland for centuries. Drawing on extensive archival and primary material by the poet, Seamus Heaney's Regions examines Heaney's work from before his first published poetry volume, Death of a Naturalist in 1966, to his most recent volume, the elegiac Human Chain in 2010, to provide the most comprehensive treatment of the poet's work to date. "Richard Rankin Russell's Seamus Heaney's Regions is a major and original contribution; it is hard to think of another critical work on Heaney that is so complete in its coverage, from the earliest activities to Human Chain. Russell is extremely well-versed in Heaney's writings, and extends his analysis beyond the usual concentration on the poetry to bring in the crucial prose and dramatic works, including the early, largely forgotten items. The breadth of his approach makes his book of interest to scholars in such neighboring fields as social geography, history, and theology as well as contemporary literature."--Bernard O'Donoghue, Wadham College, University of Oxford"--
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- Russell, Richard Rankin
- Dewey number
- 821/.914
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR6058.E2
- LC item number
- Z866 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Heaney, Seamus
- Heaney, Seamus
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Heaney, Seamus, -- 1939-2013 -- Criticism and interpretation
- English
- Languages & Literatures
- English Literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
- Label
- Seamus Heaney's Regions, Richard Rankin Russell
- Antecedent source
- not applicable
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The Development of Northern Irish Regionalism -- Recording Bigotry and Imagining a New Province: Heaney and BBC Northern Ireland Radio, 1968-73 -- Heaney's Essays on Regional Writers: The 1970s -- Wounds and Fire: Northern Ireland in Heaney's 1970s Poetry -- Darkness Visible: Irish Catholicism, the American Civil Rights Movement, and the Blackness of "Strange Fruit" -- Border Crossings: Heaney's Prose Poems in Stations -- Joyce, Burns, and Holub: Heaney's Independent Regionalism in An Open Letter -- Affirming and Transcending Regionalism: Joyce, Dante, Eliot, and the Tercet Form in Station Island and The Haw Lantern -- The Northern Irish Context and Owen and Yeats -- Intertexts in The Cure at Troy -- Guttural and Global: Heaney's Regionalism after 1990 -- "My Ship of Genius Now Shakes Out Her Sail": The Spirit Region and the Tercet in Seeing Things and Human Chain -- Visiting the Dead and Welcoming Newborns: Human Chain and Heaney's Three Regions
- Control code
- 885071845
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780268158385
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctvpgjg9p
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- not applicable
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)885071845
- Label
- Seamus Heaney's Regions, Richard Rankin Russell
- Antecedent source
- not applicable
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The Development of Northern Irish Regionalism -- Recording Bigotry and Imagining a New Province: Heaney and BBC Northern Ireland Radio, 1968-73 -- Heaney's Essays on Regional Writers: The 1970s -- Wounds and Fire: Northern Ireland in Heaney's 1970s Poetry -- Darkness Visible: Irish Catholicism, the American Civil Rights Movement, and the Blackness of "Strange Fruit" -- Border Crossings: Heaney's Prose Poems in Stations -- Joyce, Burns, and Holub: Heaney's Independent Regionalism in An Open Letter -- Affirming and Transcending Regionalism: Joyce, Dante, Eliot, and the Tercet Form in Station Island and The Haw Lantern -- The Northern Irish Context and Owen and Yeats -- Intertexts in The Cure at Troy -- Guttural and Global: Heaney's Regionalism after 1990 -- "My Ship of Genius Now Shakes Out Her Sail": The Spirit Region and the Tercet in Seeing Things and Human Chain -- Visiting the Dead and Welcoming Newborns: Human Chain and Heaney's Three Regions
- Control code
- 885071845
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780268158385
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctvpgjg9p
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- not applicable
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)885071845
Subject
- English
- English Literature
- Heaney, Seamus, -- 1939-2013 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013
- Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
- Languages & Literatures
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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