Cultural memory and myth in Seamus Heaney's bog poems, and Antjie Krog's Country of my skull and Down to my last skin.

This dissertation attempts to compare and contrast the functions of cultural memory and myth in both Heaney and Krog's work. By doing so, I look at what it means for both writers to work within a culture or tradition, and how they both mediate their religious or racial identity within a fractur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dix, Brett Gavin.
Other Authors: van Wyngaard, John.
Language:en
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10413/977