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Poets, belief and calamitous times

My research in this thesis covers the religious discourse of six contemporary poets who write belief from a position of calamity. Yehuda Amichai writes from the constant wars fought since the founding of the state of Israel; Anne Sexton from psychiatric illness; Seamus Heaney from the sectarian violence of Ireland; Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs from the twentieth century’s greatest calamity, the Holocaust; and Yves Bonnefoy, from the language theories of post-modernism, which are calamitous for a poet. (For complete abstract open document)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/245058
CreatorsYoung, Gwynith
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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