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Between Anchoring and Elsewhere. Aspects of place in Northern Irish poetry

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The concept of place forms a significant part of the cultural matrix of Northern Ireland with its multifarious divisions and fault lines. Interrogating place, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley and John Montague explore the potential of the concept as a motif through which poetry negotiates the experience of being placed or displaced, of retreat and return, of belonging and wishing to belong, of facing and crossing borders. Reflections on place in the oeuvres of the four poets ultimately prompt the reconsideration of questions that underlie the complex and at once evasive sense of identity that results from the set of geographical and historical markers that define Northern Ireland.
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Dolmányos, P. (2025). Between Anchoring and Elsewhere. Aspects of place in Northern Irish poetry. Budapest: L’Harmattan Publishing House. https://doi.org/10.56037/978-963-646-415-8

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Bibliotheca Eszterhazyana ISSN 3094-3574
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978-963-646-415-8
978-2-336-57629-9
Ort, datum
Budapest, Eger, Paris, 2025
Gutachter
Geoffrey Ferencz
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poetry
place
pastoral
Ulster
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monograph
Wissenschaftsgebiet
History of literature
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Prognosen, Zukunftsstudien
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SOC037000
SOC026000
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Eszterházy Károly Katolikus Egyetem
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First edition
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154 Seiten
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Englisch
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