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Exemplary Readership in Heaney’s Prose
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Abstract
This chapter traces the importance that ideas of exemplarity hold in Heaney’s prose. Heaney’s prose helps reveal the significance of exemplarity as a category in his poetics, and in his beliefs about writerly influence—influence exerted both on other poets and on the larger social world. As was the case for his poetry, examining Heaney’s prose through the lens of his interest in exemplarity offers new angles on some of the features of his writing which have prompted significant critical debate. In particular, this chapter shows how ideas of exemplarity permeate not only the content but the form and style of his prose writings. The chapter shows how the category of ‘exemplary readership’ plays an important role in Heaney’s critical and theoretical prose.
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Abstract
This chapter traces the importance that ideas of exemplarity hold in Heaney’s prose.
Heaney’s prose helps reveal the significance of exemplarity as a category in his poetics, and in his beliefs about writerly influence—influence exerted both on other poets and on the larger social world.
As was the case for his poetry, examining Heaney’s prose through the lens of his interest in exemplarity offers new angles on some of the features of his writing which have prompted significant critical debate.
In particular, this chapter shows how ideas of exemplarity permeate not only the content but the form and style of his prose writings.
The chapter shows how the category of ‘exemplary readership’ plays an important role in Heaney’s critical and theoretical prose.
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