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

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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Main Author: Dix, Brett Gavin.
Other Authors: van Wyngaard, John.
Language:en
Published: 2010
Subjects:
Memory in literature.
Myth in literature.
South Africa > In literature.
Ireland > In literature.
Theses > English.
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10413/977
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topic Memory in literature.
Myth in literature.
South Africa--In literature.
Ireland--In literature.
Theses--English.
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Myth in literature.
South Africa--In literature.
Ireland--In literature.
Theses--English.
Dix, Brett Gavin.
Cultural memory and myth in Seamus Heaney's bog poems, and Antjie Krog's Country of my skull and Down to my last skin.
description 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 fractured and divided society. === Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.
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title Cultural memory and myth in Seamus Heaney's bog poems, and Antjie Krog's Country of my skull and Down to my last skin.
title_short Cultural memory and myth in Seamus Heaney's bog poems, and Antjie Krog's Country of my skull and Down to my last skin.
title_full Cultural memory and myth in Seamus Heaney's bog poems, and Antjie Krog's Country of my skull and Down to my last skin.
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