The Cure At Troy

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780571346196

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The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney Pdf

Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles's Philoctetes tells of the wounded hero marooned upon an island by the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. As the conflict comes to a climax, the Greeks begin to realise they cannot win the Trojan war without Philoctetes's invincible bow, and turn back to seek his help. The Cure at Troy dramatises the conflict between personal integrity and political expediency, and explores ways in which the victims of injustice can become as devoted to the contemplation of their wounds as the perpetrators are to the justification of their system. Responsive to the Greek playwright's understanding of the relations between public and private morality, The Cure at Troy is a sharp, fast-paced retelling of the Greek original, shot through with Heaney's own Irish speech and context. History says, Don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Trojan War
ISBN : 0946755191

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The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney Pdf

Author : Marianne McDonald
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0253215978

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The Living Art of Greek Tragedy by Marianne McDonald Pdf

Marianne McDonald brings together her training as a scholar of classical Greek with her vast experience in theatre and drama to help students of the classics and of theatre learn about the living performance tradition of Greek tragedy. The Living Art of Greek Tragedy is indispensable for anyone interested in performing Greek drama, and McDonald's engaging descriptions offer the necessary background to all those who desire to know more about the ancient world. With a chapter on each of the three major Greek tragedians (Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides), McDonald provides a balance of textual analysis, practical knowledge of the theatre, and an experienced look at the difficulties and accomplishments of theatrical performances. She shows how ancient Greek tragedy, long a part of the standard repertoire of theatre companies throughout the world, remains fresh and alive for contemporary audiences.

Author : Roy Foster
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691211473

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On Seamus Heaney by Roy Foster Pdf

A vivid and original account of one of Ireland’s greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographer The most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. A national figure at a time when nationality was deeply contested, Heaney also won international acclaim, culminating in the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. In On Seamus Heaney, leading Irish historian and literary critic R. F. Foster gives an incisive and eloquent account of the poet and his work against the background of a changing Ireland. Drawing on unpublished drafts and correspondence, Foster provides illuminating and personal interpretations of Heaney’s work. Though a deeply charismatic figure, Heaney refused to don the mantle of public spokesperson, and Foster identifies a deliberate evasiveness and creative ambiguity in his poetry. In this, and in Heaney’s evocation of a disappearing rural Ireland haunted by political violence, Foster finds parallels with the other towering figure of Irish poetry, W. B. Yeats. Foster also discusses Heaney’s cosmopolitanism, his support for dissident poets abroad, and his increasing focus in his later work on death and spiritual transcendence. Above all, Foster examines how Heaney created an extraordinary connection with an exceptionally wide readership, giving him an authority and power unique among contemporary writers. Combining a vivid account of Heaney’s life and a compelling reading of his entire oeuvre, On Seamus Heaney extends our understanding of the man as it enriches our appreciation of his poetry.

Author : Floyd Collins
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874138051

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Seamus Heaney by Floyd Collins Pdf

This book traces Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's development as a poet, from his first book of poetry through his most recent, Electric Light. Each chapter examines a particular phase of Heaney's poetic career, with close, careful readings of those poems that best dramatize his crisis of identity.

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571347179

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100 Poems by Seamus Heaney Pdf

In 2013, Seamus Heaney met with Faber poetry editor Matthew Hollis in Dublin. He said that one project he would very much like to complete would be to prepare a personal selection from across the entire arc of his poetry, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to make the selection in his lifetime, and after his passing, the project was initially set aside. But now, at last, it has been returned to once more, and the result is an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family. Coinciding with the opening by the National Library of Ireland of a permanent exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Seamus Heaney, this is a singular, accessible selection for new and younger readers that has the opportunity to reach far and wide, now and ahead.

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571327348

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Aeneid Book VI by Seamus Heaney Pdf

In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, Heaney acknowledged the importance of the poem to his writing, noting that 'there's one Virgilian journey that has indeed been a constant presence, and that is Aeneas's venture into the underworld. The motifs in Book VI have been in my head for years - the golden bough, Charon's barge, the quest to meet the shade of the father.' In this new translation, Heaney employs the same deft handling of the original combined with the immediacy of language and flawless poetic voice as was on show in his translation of Beowulf, a reimagining which, in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue, brought the ancient poem back to life in 'a miraculous mix of the poem's original spirit and Heaney's voice'.

Author : Eamonn Jordan
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0953425711

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Theatre Stuff by Eamonn Jordan Pdf

Essays on contemporary Irish theatre

Author : Marilynn Richtarik
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192886415

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Getting to Good Friday by Marilynn Richtarik Pdf

Getting to Good Friday intertwines literary analysis and narrative history in an accessible account of the shifts in thinking and talking about Northern Ireland's divided society that brought thirty years of political violence to a close with the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. Drawing on decades of reading, researching, and teaching Northern Irish literature and talking and corresponding with Northern Irish writers, Marilynn Richtarik describes literary reactions and contributions to the peace process during the fifteen years preceding the Agreement and in the immediate post-conflict era. Progress in this period hinged on negotiators' ability to revise the terms used to discuss the conflict. As poet Michael Longley commented in 1998, 'In its language the Good Friday Agreement depended on an almost poetic precision and suggestiveness to get its complicated message across.' Interpreting selected literary works by Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Deirdre Madden, Seamus Deane, Bernard MacLaverty, Colum McCann, and David Park within a detailed historical frame, Richtarik demonstrates the extent to which authors were motivated by a desire both to comment on and to intervene in unfolding political situations. Getting to Good Friday suggests that literature as literature-that is, in its formal properties in addition to anything it might have to 'say' about a given subject-can enrich readers' historical understanding. Through Richtarik's engaging narrative, creative writing emerges as both the medium of and a metaphor for the peace process itself.

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571342549

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The Translations of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney Pdf

This is the first ever collected volume of Seamus Heaney's translations from languages including Old and Middle Irish and English, Medieval Italian, Classical Greek and Latin and Modern Italian, Spanish, French, Romanian, German and Greek.

Author : Seamus Heaney,Ted Hughes
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571225835

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The Rattle Bag by Seamus Heaney,Ted Hughes Pdf

A collection of more than 400 hundred poems from all around the world.

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780571269631

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Human Chain by Seamus Heaney Pdf

Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. Human Chain also broaches larger questions of transmission, as lifelines to the inherited past. There are newly minted versions of anonymous early Irish lyrics, poems which stand at the crossroads of oral and written, and other 'hermit songs' which weigh equally in their balance the craft of scribe and the poet's early calling as scholar. A remarkable sequence entitled 'Route 110' plots the descent into the underworld in the Aeneid against single moments in the arc of a life, from a 1950s adolescence to the birth of the poet's first grandchild. Other poems display a Virgilian pietas for the dead - friends, neighbours and family - which is yet wholly and movingly vernacular. Human Chain also adapts a poetic 'herbal' by the Breton poet Guillevic - lyrics as delicate as ferns, which puzzle briefly over the world of things which excludes human speech, while affirming the interconnectedness of phenomena, as of a self-sufficiency in which we too are included. Human Chain is Seamus Heaney's twelfth collection of poems.

Author : Rosie Lavan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192555823

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Seamus Heaney and Society by Rosie Lavan Pdf

Throughout his career in poetry, Seamus Heaney maintained roles in education and was a visible presence in the print and broadcast media. Seamus Heaney and Society presents a dynamic new engagement with one of the most celebrated poets of the modern period, examining the ways in which his work as a poet was shaped by his work as a teacher, lecturer, critic, and public figure. Drawing on a range of archival material, this book revives the varied contexts within which Heaney's work was written, published, and circulated. Mindful of the different spheres which surrounded his pursuit of poetry, it assesses his achievements and status in Ireland, Britain, and the United States through close analysis of his work in newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, and manuscript drafts of key writings now held in the National Library of Ireland. Asserting the significance of the cultural, institutional, and historical worlds in which Heaney wrote and was read, Seamus Heaney and Society offers a timely reconstruction of the social lives of his work, while also exploring the ways in which he questioned and sustained the privacy and singularity of poetry. Ultimately, it considers how the enduring legacy of a great poet emerges from the working life of a contemporary writer.

Author : Harold Bloom,Blake Hobby
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Colonies in literature
ISBN : 9781604134421

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Exploration and Colonization by Harold Bloom,Blake Hobby Pdf

Twenty essays examine the themes of exploration and colonization in literature, including works such as "The Iliad" and "Things Fall Apart."

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571262755

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Field Work by Seamus Heaney Pdf

At the centre of this collection, which includes groups of elegies and love poems, there is a short sonnet sequence which concentrates themes apparent elsewhere in the book: the individual's responsibility for his own choices, the artist's commitment to his vocation, the vulnerability of all in the face of circumstance and death.'Throughout the volume Heaney's outstanding gifts, his eye, his ear, his understanding of the poetic language are on display - this is a book we cannot do without.' Martin Dodsworth, Guardian