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Like pilgrims to this moment : myth, history, and politics in the early writing of Seamus Heaney and Leonard Cohen

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dc.contributor.advisorFlynn, Kevinen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberRoy, Wendyen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberOphir, Ellaen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMeyers, Marken_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberVargo, Lisaen_US
dc.creatorWard, Caitlinen_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-12-19T18:39:20Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-04T05:12:14Z
dc.date.available2009-12-23T08:00:00Zen_US
dc.date.available2013-01-04T05:12:14Z
dc.date.created2008en_US
dc.date.issued2008en_US
dc.date.submitted2008en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the early work of poets Leonard Cohen and Seamus Heaney in light of their treatment of mythology, ritual, and mythologization, moving either from personal to political awareness (Heaney), or from political to personal awareness (Cohen). Heaney, writing in the midst of the Irish Troubles throughout the late 1960s and 1970s, slowly works up to political awareness as the situation from which he is writing becomes more dire. By contrast, Cohen writes during the beginnings of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec, from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, moving progressively farther away from the highly political and mythologized work of his first book. This thesis analyzes both poets’ first four books of poetry and how each poet addresses the politics of his historical time and place as a minority figure: an Irish Catholic in Northern Ireland, and an Anglophone Jew in Montreal, respectively. Ultimately, each poet chooses to mythologize and use traditional mythologies as a means of addressing contemporary horrors before being poetically (and politically) exhausted by the spiritual and mental exertion involved in the "poetry of disfigurement."en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-12192008-183920en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectNorthern Irish poetryen_US
dc.subjectBelfast poetryen_US
dc.subjectMontreal poetsen_US
dc.subjectBelfast poetsen_US
dc.subjectIrish literatureen_US
dc.subjectCanadian literatureen_US
dc.subjectthe Troublesen_US
dc.subjectSeamus Heaneyen_US
dc.subjectLeonard Cohenen_US
dc.subjectMontrealen_US
dc.subjectBelfasten_US
dc.subjectJewish poetsen_US
dc.subjectIrish poetsen_US
dc.subjectIrish Republican poetryen_US
dc.subjectQuiet Revolutionen_US
dc.subjectSilent Revolutionen_US
dc.subjectIrish poetryen_US
dc.subjectmythologyen_US
dc.subjectbog poetryen_US
dc.subject20th century poetryen_US
dc.subjectEnglish literatureen_US
dc.subjectpoetryen_US
dc.subject20th century studiesen_US
dc.subjectethnic minoritiesen_US
dc.subjectreligious minoritiesen_US
dc.subjectmythologizationen_US
dc.subjectHebrew scriptureen_US
dc.subjectTollund Manen_US
dc.subjectNorthen_US
dc.subjectLet Us Compare Mythologiesen_US
dc.subjectDeath of a Naturalisten_US
dc.subjectFlowers For Hitleren_US
dc.subjectWintering Outen_US
dc.subjectDoor Into the Darken_US
dc.subjectSpice-Box of Earthen_US
dc.subjectParasites of Heavenen_US
dc.titleLike pilgrims to this moment : myth, history, and politics in the early writing of Seamus Heaney and Leonard Cohenen_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US
dc.type.materialtexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentEnglishen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglishen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Saskatchewanen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US

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