Poetry as medium for cultural identity: Cultural theory and poetics in twentieth-century (Anglo-)Irish poetry

Berensmeyer, Ingo (2003): Poetry as medium for cultural identity: Cultural theory and poetics in twentieth-century (Anglo-)Irish poetry. In: Anglia - Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie, Vol. 121, No. 3: pp. 390-419

Abstract

The problem of cultural identity is a crucial element of both social and individual self-descriptions, especially in post-colonial societies and literatures. This article examines its importance for (Anglo-)Irish poetry in the twentieth century, using a selection of texts by W.B. Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney, Cathal O Searcaigh, and Paul Muldoon.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Languages and Literatures > Department 3 > English Studies
• Subjects: 400 Language > 420 English and Old English languages
• ISSN: 0340-5222
• Language: English