The Body as Ethical Synecdoche in the Writing of Seamus Heaney

dc.contributor.creator	O'Brien, Eugene
dc.date.accessioned	2010-05-04T12:39:31Z
dc.date.available	2010-05-04T12:39:31Z
dc.date.issued	2006
dc.identifier.citation	O'Brien,E.(2006).'The Body as Ethical Synecdoche in the Writing of Seamus Heaney,' in Gilsenen-Nordin,I.(ed.), Metaphors of the Body and Desire in Contemporary Irish Poetry. Irish Academic Press: Dublin,79-110.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10395/315
dc.description.abstract	This essay examines the imaginative use of images of the violently abused body in the writing of Seamus Heaney. Looking at The Cure at Troy and The Burial at Thebes, this essay also looks at real bodies – victims of the violence in Northern Ireland – those of the Kingmsills massacre and Robert McCartney. The ethical import of a bruised and abused body is a strong trope in Heaney’s work and the conflation between ethics, aesthetic and politics in terms of the body is explored.	en
dc.language.iso	eng	en
dc.publisher	Irish Academic Press	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Metaphors of the Body and Desire in Contemporary Irish Poetry;
dc.subject	Derrida	en
dc.subject	Deconstruction	en
dc.subject	Heaney	en
dc.subject	Politics	en
dc.subject	Language	en
dc.title	The Body as Ethical Synecdoche in the Writing of Seamus Heaney	en
dc.type	Part/ Chapter of book	en
dc.type.supercollection	all_mic_research	en
dc.type.supercollection	mic_published_reviewed	en
dc.type.restriction	none	en
dc.description.version	Yes	en