Seamus Heaney: Searches For Answers

Contents
Acknowledgements
i
Introduction 
1
Chapter One: 'Preoccupying Questions': Heaney's Prose
12
Chapter Two: 'Continuous Adjudication': Binary Oppositions and the Field of Force
47
Chapter Three: 'Writing in the Sand': Poetry and Transformation
106
Chapter Four: 'Surviving Amphibiously': Poetry and Politics
141
Chapter Five: 'A Bright Nowhere': The Deconstruction of Place
191
Chapter Six:  'Through-Otherness': The Deconstruction of Language
225
Chapter Seven:  Nobel Causes: Heaney and Yeats
263
Conclusion
302
Works Cited
307
 

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Heaney, Seamus Prose, Northern Ireland In literature, Northern Ireland Intellectual life