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- Title
TECHNIQUES OF INDIRECTION IN TWO GENERATIONS OF POSTCOLONIAL POETS.
- Authors
ZIRRA, IOANA
- Abstract
The protracted colonial consequences of Ireland's Troubles are made manifest in indirect, witty, baroque poems through which two generations of poets communicate intertextually: Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon's generation connects with Paul Muldoon's. The intertextual complexities manifest in seven Northern Irish dialogic poems will be analyzed by adapting Mikhail Bakhtin's (1981) novelistic image principles, to explain how contemporary poetry responds to the Joycean incentive of writing so as to transcend direct lyricism and be indirect (just as modernist fiction did when shunning straight narrative), in the progressive dramatic form, "wherein the artist presents his image in immediate relation to others" (Joyce 1992:232).
- Subjects
MULDOON, Paul, 1951-; HEANEY, Seamus, 1939-2013; MAHON, Derek, 1941-; POETS; POETRY writing; DIALOGICS; BAROQUE literature
- Publication
BAS - British & American Studies, 2014, Vol 20, p109
- ISSN
1224-3086
- Publication type
Article