Thematically arranged and clearly structured, this book explores
the seminal themes in Heaney's writing: aesthetics, politics,
language, identity and myth, ethics and notions of Irishness. It
takes into account all of Heaney's writings, poetry, prose and
translations in order to demonstrate that these themes are
coherently developed throughout his work. The detailed reading of
various aspects of Heaney's prose should prove valuable to students
of his poetry, proving a depth of reference to his evolving thought
processes. political project with respect to issues of Irish
identity as outlined in his writings. This work suggests that there
are analogies between Heaney's political and ethical thought, and
that of Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas. his
relationship with politics; his notion of place; his enunciation of
a sense of visceral identity; his concept of ethics in terms of a
relationship between selfhood and alterity; and his notion of the
many threads which combine to produce a sense of Irishness. Finally
the Nobel lectures of Yeats and Heaney are examined in order to
trace the complex relationship between these two writers.
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