TY - BOOK
T1 - In attesa della vita. Introduzione alla poetica di Derek Mahon
AU - Reggiani, Enrico
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - When Seamus Heaney was awarded The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, the intense creative season of Irish literature in the last decades of the twentieth century was awarded with him. Derek Mahon (Belfast 1941-) was one of the more important protagonists of that season: in his poetical work, he explores the contradictory experience of waiting for a vraie vie beyond the “given life”; he observes the most secluded and unheard-of recesses of reality from a cosmopolitan perspective. Not rarely, he is considered as “a better poet than Heaney”. This volume, which is the first monograph ever on Derek Mahon, is divided into two parts: the first one delineates his biographical and creative trajectory and synthesizes the different phases of his development in order to show the profile of the macrotext of his work; the second one examines his first poetry collection (Night-Crossing, 1968) according to the hermeneutical approach of “cumulative reading”, which generates “an experience that is macrotextual and sequential at the same time, i.e., both vertical and horizontal”.
AB - When Seamus Heaney was awarded The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, the intense creative season of Irish literature in the last decades of the twentieth century was awarded with him. Derek Mahon (Belfast 1941-) was one of the more important protagonists of that season: in his poetical work, he explores the contradictory experience of waiting for a vraie vie beyond the “given life”; he observes the most secluded and unheard-of recesses of reality from a cosmopolitan perspective. Not rarely, he is considered as “a better poet than Heaney”. This volume, which is the first monograph ever on Derek Mahon, is divided into two parts: the first one delineates his biographical and creative trajectory and synthesizes the different phases of his development in order to show the profile of the macrotext of his work; the second one examines his first poetry collection (Night-Crossing, 1968) according to the hermeneutical approach of “cumulative reading”, which generates “an experience that is macrotextual and sequential at the same time, i.e., both vertical and horizontal”.
KW - 20th century Irish Poetry
KW - Derek Mahon
KW - Macrotextual analysis
KW - Night-crossing (1st poetry collection)
KW - 20th century Irish Poetry
KW - Derek Mahon
KW - Macrotextual analysis
KW - Night-crossing (1st poetry collection)
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/22335
M3 - Book
SN - 8834304543
T3 - Ricerche di Scienze Linguistiche e Letterature Straniere
BT - In attesa della vita. Introduzione alla poetica di Derek Mahon
PB - Vita e Pensiero
ER -