1st Edition

Haunted Heaney Spectres and the Poetry

By Ian Hickey Copyright 2022
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

Haunted Heaney: Spectres and the Poetry looks at the ghosts and spectres present within the poetry of the Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney. Covering Heaney’s work from his first collection, Death of a Naturalist , to his final collection, Human Chain , this volume analyses Heaney’s poetry through the lens of hauntology as presented by Jacques Derrida in Specters of Marx . This book... Read more

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Derrida, Hauntology and the Spectre

Chapter 2: Norse and British Spectres of Colonialism

Chapter 3: The Haunted Bog: Spectrality and the Bog Poems

Chapter 4: Wider European Hauntings: Virgil and Dante

Chapter 5: Looking Backwards into the Future – ‘Route 110’

Index

Biography

Ian Hickey received his PhD from the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, in 2019. During his time there he worked as a Departmental Assistant in the Department of English Language and Literature and as a Research Assistant in the Irish Institute for Catholic Studies. He currently works as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Irish Institute for Catholic Studies, Mary Immaculate College.