Northern Irish Poetry and Theology
- Submitting institution
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Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 92114338
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137343833
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is a ground-breaking monograph on contemporary Irish poetry, offering an interpretation of the theological preoccupations of Heaney, Longley, and Mahon. While Irish literature has traditionally been examined through a sociology of religion, this study proposes a theology of the text. Moving past the sectarian binary of Catholic/Protestant difference, the book draws on early modern scholarship and post-secular criticism to demonstrate how theology shapes the status and constitution of subjectivity, language, and poetic form in the work of three agnostic/atheist poets. It draws on Heaney’s unpublished manuscripts to reveal a poetics of sacramentalism and Real Presence. 100,000 words/ 253 pages.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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