Modern Poetry and Ethnography Yeats, Frost, Warren, Heaney, and the Poet as Anthropologist

by Heuston, Sean

• ISBN13: 9780230111677
• ISBN10: 023011167X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780230119871
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Sean Heuston analyzes the works of W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, and Seamus Heaney through interdisciplinary analysis, specifically ethnography, in order to argue provocatively for the intersection of modern poetry studies and contemporary ethnographic theory.

Author Biography

Sean Heuston is an associate professor of English at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.

Table of Contents

Off With the Fairies: W.B. Yeats, Ethnography, and Identifiction * The Virtue of Fact and the Truth of Fiction: Robert Frost and Literary Ethnography * “I knew that world”: Robert Penn Warren’s Southern Ethnography * Making Strange: Seamus Heaney and Literary Ethnography