Cursed to the Trees, Enchanted by the Woods: Sweeney Astray
Drawing on Jane Bennett’s theory of “crossings and enchantment”, this essay considers interspecies transformations in Seamus Heaney’s Sweeney Astray (1983). As a bird-man, Mad King Sweeney discovers that the arboreal environment is a vibrantly interstitial space in which paganism and Christianity co...
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| Dans: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/etudesirlandaises, |
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Études irlandaises
2019
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |