The Subject of Poetry and the Subject of Theory

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2004
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O'Brien, Eugene
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O'Brien,E.(2004). ‘The Subject of Poetry and the Subject of Theory.'The Nordic Journal of Irish Studies Special Issue Contemporary Irish Poetry Vol.3,(1),1-16.
Abstract
This essay looks at three poems by Seamus Heaney in the light of Jacques Lacan’s theories of the subject. The type of subjectivity that is revealed in the poems is analysed, looking at Heaney’s early poems ‘Digging’ and ‘Personal Helicon’ and a later one ‘Out of the Bag’.
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Lacan
Heaney
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Self
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eng
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Nordic Journal of Irish Studies Special Issue Contemporary Irish Poetry
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http://hdl.handle.net/10395/310
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