Identifier	Thesis 2183
Author	Morgan, Aidan P., 1965-
Title	Overcoming influence: the writing of Seamus Heaney
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Abstract	Politics in the North of Ireland deserves a paper all its own. To attempt to condense the political situation in the North in a few short chapters is to try and distill the essentials. In such a location, politics becomes more than an argument, or a different point of view on how rules are implemented. Politics is what one becomes born into; the “us” and “them” mentality roots itself at birth and becomes almost impossible to break from. Everything in politics has an historical understanding, the interpretation of which complicates the discussion. The uniqueness of a place like Northern Ireland really comes to the fore when dealing with the implications that such historical political concerns has for the nation’s writers. Tribal bonds remain strong and dictate reactions to writings and opinions; the reader, the audience, are already endowed with a unique sense of preconceived ideas, notions, assumptions. Thus, for the writer, things such as place names and their references and spellings take on a specific meaning and can either enhance or interfere with intended thematic concerns. Furthermore, when turning to specific events or historical moments, the writer leaves himself open to criticism – why that event? Why not the parallel event of hundreds of years earlier? Why isn’t history being given equal discussion and attention as current day? What political message is being espoused? In such a place was Seamus Heaney attempting to write.
Subject	Heaney, Seamus,1939- -- Criticism and interpretation
Department	Department of English
Advisor	Hartwig, Heidi
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
Date of Publication	2011
OCLC number	804653139
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