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Island of Daemons
Terence Dewsnap
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Description for Island of Daemons
Hardback. Num Pages: 221 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 513.
This work compiles the history of the Donegal pilgrimage as presented in historical texts, guidebooks, popular writing, devotional treatises, and newspaper and journal accounts. This material_with its cultural, political, as well as religious associations_provides background for these poets' Lough Derg poems, which relate their own pilgrimage experiences. The book proceeds to examine Devlin's 'Lough Derg,' Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg,' and Heaney's 'Station Island.' The question is why do three mid-career Irish poets choose to write ambitious and problematic poems about the Lough Derg experience? The answer is found in the competing proprietary claims of what began as an early medieval imagining ... Read more
This work compiles the history of the Donegal pilgrimage as presented in historical texts, guidebooks, popular writing, devotional treatises, and newspaper and journal accounts. This material_with its cultural, political, as well as religious associations_provides background for these poets' Lough Derg poems, which relate their own pilgrimage experiences. The book proceeds to examine Devlin's 'Lough Derg,' Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg,' and Heaney's 'Station Island.' The question is why do three mid-career Irish poets choose to write ambitious and problematic poems about the Lough Derg experience? The answer is found in the competing proprietary claims of what began as an early medieval imagining ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
Number of Pages
221
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611490893
SKU
V9781611490893
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About Terence Dewsnap
Terence Dewsnap is a professor of English at Bard College.
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