Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Irish Studies
A Study of the Prose
Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Irish Studies
ISBN: 978-0-8156-3448-5
Verlag: Syracuse University Press
For this reason, much of the scholarship to date on Heaney has understandably focused on his poetry. O'Brien's new work, however, focuses on Heaney's essays, book chapters, and lectures as it seeks to understand how Heaney explored the poet's role in the world. By examining Heaney's prose, O'Brien teases out a clearer understanding of Heaney's sense of the function of poetry as an act of public intellectual and ethical inquiry. In doing so, O'Brien reads Heaney as an aesthetic thinker in the European tradition, considering him alongside Heidegger, Derrida, Lacan, and Adorno. Studying Heaney within this theoretical and philosophical tradition sheds new and useful light on one of the greatest creative minds of the twentieth century.