{"product_id":"seamus-heaneys-regions-9780268040369","title":"Seamus Heaney's Regions","description":"Regional voices from England, Ireland, and Scotland inspired Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel prize-winner, to become a poet, and his home region of Northern Ireland provided the subject matter for much of his poetry. In his work, Heaney explored, recorded, and preserved both the disappearing agrarian life of his origins and the dramatic rise of sectarianism and the subsequent outbreak of the Northern Irish \"Troubles\" beginning in the late 1960s. At the same time, Heaney consistently imagined a new region of Northern Ireland where the conflicts that have long beset it and, by extension, the relationship between Ireland and the United Kingdom might be synthesized and resolved. Finally, there is a third region Heaney committed himself to explore and map--the spirit region, that world beyond our ken. \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSeamus Heaney's Regions\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard Rankin Russell argues that Heaney's regions--the first, geographic, historical, political, cultural, linguistic; the second, a future where peace, even reconciliation, might one day flourish; the third, the life beyond this one--offer the best entrance into and a unified understanding of Heaney's body of work in poetry, prose, translations, and drama. As Russell shows, Heaney believed in the power of ideas--and the texts representing them--to begin resolving historical divisions. For Russell, Heaney's regionalist poetry contains a \"Hegelian synthesis\" view of history that imagines potential resolutions to the conflicts that have plagued Ireland and Northern Ireland for centuries. Drawing on extensive archival and primary material by the poet, \u003ci\u003eSeamus Heaney's Regions\u003c\/i\u003e examines Heaney's work from before his first published poetry volume, \u003ci\u003eDeath of a Naturalist\u003c\/i\u003e in 1966, to his most recent volume, the elegiac \u003ci\u003eHuman Chain\u003c\/i\u003e in 2010, to provide the most comprehensive treatment of the poet's work to date.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Rankin Russell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/13\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.15w x 1.02d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268040369\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/23\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2015 pg. 974\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Rankin Russell\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English and 2012-2013 Baylor Centennial Professor at Baylor University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39946331553907,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":51.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_fd77f94e-43a6-430c-bb9c-9a371351efa2.jpg?v=1648314392","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/seamus-heaneys-regions-9780268040369","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}