Seamus Heaney and the Emblems of HopeUniversity of Missouri Press, 2007 - 212 sidor "Explores Seamus Heaney's adaptation of the Celtic ritual known as the Feis of Tara, demonstrates the sovereignty motif's continued relevance in works by Irish poets Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Eavan Boland, and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, and refutes criticism that charges sexism and overemphasizes sacrifice in Heaney's poetry"--Provided by publisher. |
Innehåll
| 1 | |
1 Sovereignty and the Irish Talent | 9 |
2 Millennia in Their Eyes | 44 |
3 Heaneys Love to Ireland | 72 |
4 The Fish and the Fisher King | 89 |
5 Bridegroom to the Goddess | 108 |
6 Remembering the Giver | 126 |
Appendix to Chapter 6 | 163 |
Conclusion Praying at the Waters Edge | 167 |
Bibliography | 177 |
| 199 | |
Andra upplagor - Visa alla
Seamus Heaney and the Emblems of Hope Karen Marguerite Moloney Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 2007 |
Vanliga ord och fraser
aisling aislingí ancient archetypal beauty bog bodies Bone Dreams Book Bower Brian Britain British Bruadair cailleach Cathleen cauldron Celts Contemporary Irish Coughlan County Meath dead death Dionysian Dionysus Drink of Water Dublin Eavan Boland English Faber and Faber Feis of Tara female feminine Field Day Anthology figure fish Fisher King Gaelic Gallery Press Grail Graves's Guttural Muse Heaney's poem Houlihan Irish Poetry Irish Writing John Montague lines loathly lady London Loughcrew Love to Ireland Mac Cana male Markale marriage of sovereignty Matthews Merriman Michael Hartnett myth narrator narrator's Ní Dhonnchadha Niall Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Ó Rathaille Ó Tuama Ocean's Love poem's poet poetic refer rite ritual Robert Graves sacred marriage Seamus Heaney Selected Poems sexual Sir Walter Ralegh sovereignty goddess sovereignty motif spéirbhean stanza suggests Suibhne Sweeney sweetbriar symbol tench Thomas Kinsella tion Tollund tradition Trans transformation translation Ulster University Press White Goddess Whitmont women Yeats York
Populära avsnitt
Sida 3 - You have a society in [the] Iron Age where there was ritual bloodletting and killing to a goddess of the territory of the ground. You have a society where girls' heads were shaved for adultery, you have a religion centering on the territory, on a goddess of the ground and of the land and associated with sacrifice. Now in many ways the fury of Irish Republicanism is associated with a religion like this, with a female goddess who has appeared in various guises. She appears as Cathleen Ni Houlihan in...
Sida 2 - From that moment, the problems of poetry moved from being simply a matter of achieving the satisfactory verbal icon to being a search for images and symbols adequate to our predicament.
Sida 3 - It was chiefly concerned with preserved bodies of men and women found in the bogs of Jutland, naked, strangled or with their throats cut, disposed under the peat since early Iron Age times. The author, PV Glob, argues convincingly that a number of these, and in particular the Tollund Man, whose head is now preserved near Aarhus in the museum at Silkeburg, were ritual sacrifices to the Mother Goddess, the goddess of the ground who needed new bridegrooms each winter to bed with her in her sacred place,...