Mistaken Identities: Poetry and Northern Ireland

ISBN-13: 9780198184225 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 240 str.

Peter McDonald

Opis

This study addresses questions of Northern Irish poetry and politics through close readings of a number of important writers. McDonald delivers a searching critique of nationalist cultural assumptions about Northern Ireland through illuminating readings of the province's best modern poets, including Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin, Louis MacNeice, Derek Mahon, Paul Muldoon, and others.

Recenzje

interesting, wide-ranging and tetchy study ... Certainly this book, though it fans an important debate about the politics of 'identity', finds its major strengths in the little decentred details of style and cultural nuance which its author, an always astute and at his best a super-sensitive reader of poetry, succeeds in teasing out.