Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-14T13:39:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 456579.pdf: 2100707 bytes, checksum: 279623607cb475d3a54ed510f99e6b8f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-28 / A presente tese analisa a literatura contempor?nea da Irlanda do Norte de l?ngua inglesa com apoio teorico dos Estudos Irlandeses. Tem como objetivo introduzir e criticar a poesia escrita por Tom Paulin, poeta brit?nico contempor?neo, considerado um dos grandes escritores irlandeses protestantes surgidos na prov?ncia de Ulster. A linha percorrida nesta an?lise diz respeito ? investiga??o de como os discursos ideol?gicos e as quest?es de identidade s?o representados no trabalho do poeta. Uma avalia??o cr?tica do autor sobre ideologias e identidades existentes na Irlanda do Norte e sua tentativa de responder a elas tamb?m ser?o analisadas. Para realizar esta an?lise, a tese est? dividida em tr?s cap?tulos. O primeiro apresenta um relato de eventos hist?ricos na Irlanda desde sua conquista pelo Imp?rio Brit?nico at? o presente momento, concentrando-se na Irlanda do Norte depois da Parti??o gerada pelo Tratado Anglo-Irland?s de 1922. O segundo cap?tulo dedica-se a uma reflex?o sobre a cria??o da literatura nacional irlandesa escrita em ingl?s e sua estreita rela??o com a hist?ria social e pol?tica do pa?s. Finalmente, o terceiro cap?tulo constr?i uma an?lise detalhada de poemas selecionados de cinco cole??es diferentes: State of Justice (1977), The Strange Museum (1980) Liberty Tree (1983), Fivemiletown (1987) e The Wind Dog (1999). A fim de investigar as quest?es de identidade e ideologia, este cap?tulo est? dividido em tr?s subcap?tulos de acordo com tr?s importantes temas recorrentes. A primeira parte analisa poesia e pol?tica, a segunda investiga poesia e hist?ria, e o terceiro subcap?tulo examina poesia e linguagem. Entre os diversos autores consultados para fundamenta??o do estudo sobre a poesia de Tom Paulin destacam-se Terry Eagleton, Edward Said, Elmer Andrews, Norman Vance, Peter MacDonald, Sara Broom, Patr?cia Craig e Neil Corcoran. Grande parte destes te?ricos pertencem a uma corrente espec?fica da literatura p?s-colonial, denominada Estudos Irlandeses . / This dissertation examines contemporary Northern Irish Literature written in English with the help of the theoretical approach of Irish Studies. It aims to introduce and make a critique of poetry written by Tom Paulin, a contemporary British poet who is regarded one of the major Protestant Irish writers to emerge from Ulster province. The thread pursued in this analysis relates to an investigation of how ideological discourses and the issues of identity are represented in the poet s work. The author s critical evaluation of existing ideologies and identities and his attempt to respond to them will also be analyzed. To perform this analysis, this dissertation is divided into three chapters. The first chapter presents an account of historical events in Ireland from its conquest to the present focusing in Northern Ireland after partition by the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1922. The second chapter is dedicated to a reflection on the establishment of Irish national literature written in English and its close relation to Irish social and political history. Finally, the third chapter is dedicated to a detailed analysis of selected poems from five different collections: State of Justice (1977), The Strange Museum (1980) Liberty Tree (1983), Fivemiletown (1987) and The Wind Dog (1999). In order to investigate the issues of identity and ideology, this chapter is divided in three sections according to three important recurring themes. The first section analyzes poetry and politics; the second investigates poetry and history and the third evaluates poetry and Language. Among the authors consulted to form the basis of the discussion are Terry Eagleton, Edward Said, Seamus Deane, Elmer Andrews, Norman Vance, Peter MacDonald, Sara Broom, Patr?cia Craig, Neil Corcoran, and John Goodby. Most of them belong to this specific line of Postcolonial literature that is called Irish Studies.