Redress as a Construct in Seamus Heaney's Poetry and Prose

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Redress as a Construct in Seamus Heaney's Poetry and Prose

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This thesis explores redress in Seamus Heaney’s poetry and prose. I argue that redress is a deeply considered intellectual construct that facilitates the process of writing and unwriting. Due to its dynamism and flexibility, redress is significant as a central construct throughout Heaney’s career. The first chapter considers how redress facilitates composition. In the early poetry, spatial metaphors indicate that redress functions as the creation of an alternative space or place in which to e...

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Research paper

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Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2014

Creator

Macklin, Ruth

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/5008

Related subjects

redress / The Redress of Poetry / criticism / poetry / elsewhere / technique / Romantic / craft / dialect / poetry analysis / Oxford Lectures / ritual / funeral / vatic / Seamus Heaney / Gerard Manley Hopkins / Patrick Kavanagh

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