Book contents
- Irish Literature in Transition, 1980–2020
- Irish Literature in Transition
- Irish Literature in Transition, 1980–2020
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- General Acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Times
- Chapter 1 The Contemporary Conditions of Irish Language Literature
- Chapter 2 The Cultures of Poetry in Contemporary Ireland
- Chapter 3 Troubles Literature and the End of the Troubles
- Chapter 4 Contemporary Irish Theatre and Media
- Chapter 5 Writing Childhood: Young Adult and Children’s Literature
- Coda: Eavan Boland and Seamus Heaney
- Part II Spaces
- Part III Forms of Experience
- Part IV Practices, Institutions, and Audiences
- Index
Coda: Eavan Boland and Seamus Heaney
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2020
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Book contents
- Irish Literature in Transition, 1980–2020
- Irish Literature in Transition
- Irish Literature in Transition, 1980–2020
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- General Acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Times
- Chapter 1 The Contemporary Conditions of Irish Language Literature
- Chapter 2 The Cultures of Poetry in Contemporary Ireland
- Chapter 3 Troubles Literature and the End of the Troubles
- Chapter 4 Contemporary Irish Theatre and Media
- Chapter 5 Writing Childhood: Young Adult and Children’s Literature
- Coda: Eavan Boland and Seamus Heaney
- Part II Spaces
- Part III Forms of Experience
- Part IV Practices, Institutions, and Audiences
- Index
Summary
This coda juxtaposes two of the most important Irish poets of the past fifty years, focusing in particular on the ways in which Boland and Heaney base their poetics on turns to the past, whether personal memory or cultural history. It also locates ways in which Boland and Heaney aim to transform their backward-looking glances in order to account for the complexities and uncertainties of historical change, as well as to model alternate ways to think about temporality and transition.
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- Irish Literature in Transition: 1980–2020 , pp. 111 - 118Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020