Tongue of Water, Teeth of Stones
(Part of the Irish Literature, History, and Culture Series)
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" In a 1984 lecture on poetry and political violence, Seamus Heaney remarked that ""the idea of poetry was itself that higher ideal to which the poets had unconsciously turned in order to survive the demeaning conditions."" Jonathan Hufstader examines the work of Heaney and his contemporaries to discover how poems, combining conscious technique with unconscious impulse, work as aesthetic forms and as strategies for emotional survival. In his powerful study Hufstader shows how a number of contemp
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:081312106X
ISBN13:9780813121062
Release Date:June 1999
Publisher:University Press of Kentucky
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.46 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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