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dc.contributor.authorKruczkowska, Joanna
dc.contributor.editorMianowski, Marie
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-02T05:38:26Z
dc.date.available2015-09-02T05:38:26Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationKruczkowska J., “Derek Mahon's Seascapes Mediated through Greece: Antiquity in Modernity, Nature in Abstraction.” Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts. Ed. Marie Mianowski. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 69-80.pl_PL
dc.identifier.isbn9780230319394
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/11625
dc.description.abstractThe article investigates various approaches to seascape in selected poems of the contemporary Irish poet, Derek Mahon, set against the background of references to Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney or Odysseus Elytis. The sea provides a perspective that cannot be overestimated in trying to get an insight into the communication and the clash between the culture of the South and the North. The two nations have often glimpsed at their reflection in the mirror of the surrounding seas, their history and mentality determined by their geographical position and largely insular experience. Elements such as the isolation from the mainland; the perception of the sea as a personification of the force ruling over life and death, as a threat and a promise; or the focus on some characteristic natural phenomena such as light or surface dominate the seascape imagery both in Greek and Irish literature. The sea often constitutes a border of antagonistic and complementary worlds: dream and reality, light and darkness, male and female, the real world and the underworld – and the vantage point of the poet changes accordingly. Some poems under discussion also explore a series of myths linked with the sea, the best known of which, the Odyssey, has remained a frame of reference for numerous contemporary Greek and Irish poets. Elytis's Cyclades or Longley's Mayo provide us with examples of 'private homelands'. As Longley once observed, “his part of Mayo” reminds him of Ithaca (sandy and remote) and of Greece in general: “I’ve often thought that that part of Ireland . . . looks like Greece. Or Greece looks like a dust-bowl version of Ireland,” which triggers further deliberations on seascape as the common ground for the two countries. Just as Elytis's Cyclades or Longley's Mayo, Mahon’s Cyclades provide us with examples of 'private homelands'. The focus of this article is Derek Mahon’s seascapes: purely Greek (‘Aphrodite’s Pool’), Irish seen through the prism of the Greek ones (‘Achill’) and purely Irish (‘Recalling Aran’). The level of abstraction in the last category is compared with Odysseus Elytis’s imagery of the Cyclades, while the first poem demystifies a practice which I termed as ‘myth trading’, one of consumerist tourism techniques.pl_PL
dc.language.isoenpl_PL
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillanpl_PL
dc.relation.ispartofIrish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the ArtsEN
dc.rightsUznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl/*
dc.subjectDerek Mahonpl_PL
dc.subjectIrish poetryen
dc.subjectModern Greek poetryen
dc.subjectIrish landscapeen
dc.subjectGreek landscape in Irish poetryen
dc.titleDerek Mahon's Seascapes Mediated through Greece: Antiquity in Modernity, Nature in Abstraction.en
dc.typeBook chapteren
dc.rights.holderPalgrave Macmillan and authorpl_PL
dc.page.number69-80pl_PL
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationInstitute of English Studies, University of Lodzpl_PL
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationFaculty of English, University of Athenspl_PL
dc.identifier.eissn978-0-230-36029-7
dc.contributor.authorBiographicalnoteDr Joanna Kruczkowska is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Lodz, Poland, and specializes in comparative poetry (Irish, Polish, Modern Greek). After her Ph.D. on Northern Irish and Polish poets in the socio-political context (Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle), she has expanded her research with a Modern Greek perspective. Currently, she has been working at the University of Athens on her Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship project on Modern Greek references (ecocriticism; translation and reception, including C. P. Cavafy and George Seferis) in the work of Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, and Zbigniew Herbert.pl_PL
dc.referencesMahon, Derek. (1999) Collected Poems (Oldcastle: Gallery Press)pl_PL
dc.referencesMahon, Derek. (2005) Harbour Lights (Oldcastle: Gallery Press).pl_PL
dc.referencesElytis, Odysseas. (2004) Collected Poems J. Carson and N. Sarris (transl.) (Baltimore and London: John Hopkins University Press).pl_PL
dc.referencesElytis, O. (1995) Open Papers O. Broumas and T Begley (transl.) (Washington: Copper Canyon Press).pl_PL
dc.referencesHaughton, H. (2007) The Poetry of Derek Mahon (Oxford: Oxford University Press).pl_PL
dc.referencesHeaney, S. (2006) District and Circle (London: Faber and Faber).pl_PL
dc.referencesLongley, M. (1985) Poems 1963-1983 (Dublin: Gallery Books).pl_PL
dc.referencesLongley, Michael. (1991) Gorse Fires (London: Secker and Warburg).pl_PL
dc.contributor.authorEmailjkruczkowska@hotmail.compl_PL
dc.identifier.doi10.1057/9780230360297


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