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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schwerter, S

Titel

Northern Irish Poetry and the Russian Turn: Intertextuality in the work of Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian

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1

Ort / Verlag

London: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 01 02 Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian are the three most influential poets from Northern Ireland who have composed poems with a link to pre- and post-revolutionary Russia. Their attraction to the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union reflects the increasing fascination with Eastern European literature among western writers. Russian authors finding their way into the poetry are, among others, Alexander Pushkin, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak and Joseph Brodsky. By incorporating intertextual links into their work, Heaney, Paulin and McGuckian establish parallels between Russia and Northern Ireland in terms of history, politics, literature and culture. They attempt to reconsider the Northern Irish conflict through a Russian framework in order to subvert the established discourse of the Troubles based on British Unionism and Irish Nationalism. Their references to Russia allow the three poets to achieve a geographical and mental detachment in order to turn a fresh eye on the Northern Irish situation. 13 02 STEPHANIE SCHWERTER teaches translation studies and comparative literature at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and chairs the German-French translation programme at the Fondation Maison des sciences de l'Homme in Paris, France. Before moving to France in 2008, she lived in Northern Ireland and worked at the University of Ulster and at Queen's University Belfast. 02 02 Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian are the three most influential poets from Northern Ireland who have composed poems with a link to the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union. Through their references to Russia the three poets achieve a geographical and mental detachment allowing them to turn a fresh eye on the Northern Irish situation. 04 02 Introduction: 'And every evening surprised I was still alive I repeated verses' 'No Vodka, Aquavit or Uisquebaugh': The Russian-Irish Connection in the Work of Seamus Heaney 'Punching Holes in History': Tom Paulin's Interest in Russia The Russian Dimension in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian: 'My words are traps through which you pick your way' Conclusion Bibliography Index 31 02 Exploration of how Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin & Medbh McGuckian achieve a geographical and mental detachment through their references to Russia, and turn a fresh eye on the Northern Irish situation 16 02 Alcobia-Murphy, Shane: Sympathetic Ink. Intertextual Relations in Northern Irish Poetry. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006. Kennedy-Andrews, Elmer: Writing Home. Poetry and Place in Northern Ireland. 1968-2008. Cambridge: Brewer, 2008. Hufstader, Jonathan: Tongue of Water, Teeth of Stones. Northern Irish Poetry and Social Violence. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1999. Alcobia-Murphy, Shane; Kirkland, Richard: The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian, Alcobia-Murphy, Shane, Kirkland Richard (eds.). Cork: Cork University Press, 2010, p. 197-207. Brown, John: In the Chair. Interviews with Poets from the North of Ireland. Cliffs of Moher: Salmon Publishing, 2002. Wills, Clair: Improprieties: Politics and Sexuality in Northern Irish Poetry. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. O'Brien, Eugene: Seamus Heaney. Creating Irelands of the Mind. Dublin: The Liffey Press, 2005. Parker, Michael: Seamus Heaney. The Making of the Poet. London: McMillan, 1993. Heaney, Seamus: The Government of the Tongue. London, Faber, 1988. 19 02 First book-length study addressing the influence of Russian culture and history, and the work of Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian Unique amongst other studies looking at intertextual connections in Irish poetry as it takes into consideration Russian source texts in their original language and not in translation Questions whether the three Northern Irish poets' indirect and coded ways of expression promote an understanding of the Northern Irish situation or whether it can be seen as a gesture of evasion or distortion of fact