A Singing Contest: Conventions of Sound in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney (Studies in Major Literary Authors) - Hardcover

Tyler, Meg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415975395 ISBN 13: 9780415975391

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

About this title

Synopsis:

Meg Tyler here presents a formal analysis which comprises close readings of Seamus Heaney's poetry; whose work, in an era of fractured poetry, stands out as it strives towards unity and regeneration. "A Singing Contest" is a welcome return to the practice of close reading and formal analysis at it moves away from the highly-politicized theoretical readings of literature that have inundated literary studies over the two decades. By a detailed structural analysis of diction, meter, imagery and generic form, Tyler illustrates how Heaney's poems create concords from discord and unities from fracture. She considers the interplay between different kinds of literary tradition and community in his poetry. Incorporating readings of Heaney's elegies, pastoral eclogues and sonnets, "A Singing Contest" will serve undergraduates of all levels as an excellent introduction to formal analysis and close reading, and graduate students as a model of formal analysis.

About the Author:

Margaret B. Tyler is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at the College of General Studies, Boston University. She has published prose (book reviews) and poetry in The Kenyon Review, Agni, The Harvard Review, Del Sol Review, among other journals.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0415975395
• ISBN 13: 9780415975391
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228