Free Download Joanne Piavanini, "Cultural Memory in Seamus Heaney’s Late Work"
English | 2020 | pages: 228 | ISBN: 3030469298, 3030469263 | PDF | 2,7 mb
Cultural Memory in Seamus Heaney’s Late Work considers the ways that memoryfunctions in Heaney’s poetry. Joanne Piavanini argues that the shaping ofcollective memory is one of Heaney’s major contributions as a poet. LocatingHeaney in a transnational literary sphere, this book argues that his late work isdefined by a type of cosmopolitanism openness: the work moves beyond nationalidentity to explore multiple allegiances and identifications. Moreover, Piavaninidemonstrates that memory is a helpful lens to look at Heaney’s late work, inparticular, because of the interplay of past, present and future in these works: inthe construction of a collective memory of the Troubles; in the use of the elegy tocommemorate the passing of important contemporary poets; in his writing onevents with transnational significance, such as 9/11; in the slippages betweenpast and present in poems about his family; and through the literary afterlives oftexts―specifically, his appropriation of canonical classical texts. Drawing onapproaches and concepts from memory studies, Piavanini considers Heaney’slate work to develop an analysis of poetry as a vehicle of memory.