Archetypal, identical, similar? Seamus Heaney’s “Punishment” revisited

Autores
Montezanti, Miguel Ángel
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2008
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inglés
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“Punishment” by Seamus Heaney reflects upon the relationship between a prehistoric girl killed in a ritual and two modern Irish girls punished as a consequence of political strife. My point is that Heaney’s poem cannot be taken as a one-sided approach to identity, to stereotypes or archetypes. The introduction of a Christian hypotext works in such a way that no element in any of the sequences can be taken as a univocal “archetype” of the other two. Notions such as “archetype”, “repetition” and “rite” are critically discussed. The poet interrogates the painful reality of Irish contemporary events and his own reactions, rather than acquiescing to a conclusive pattern of revenge.
Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación
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Archetype
Repetition
Rite
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title Archetypal, identical, similar? Seamus Heaney’s “Punishment” revisited
spellingShingle Archetypal, identical, similar? Seamus Heaney’s “Punishment” revisited
Montezanti, Miguel Ángel
Letras
Seamus Heaney
Archetype
Repetition
Rite
title_short Archetypal, identical, similar? Seamus Heaney’s “Punishment” revisited
title_full Archetypal, identical, similar? Seamus Heaney’s “Punishment” revisited
title_fullStr Archetypal, identical, similar? Seamus Heaney’s “Punishment” revisited
title_full_unstemmed Archetypal, identical, similar? Seamus Heaney’s “Punishment” revisited
title_sort Archetypal, identical, similar? Seamus Heaney’s “Punishment” revisited
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author Montezanti, Miguel Ángel
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Seamus Heaney
Archetype
Repetition
Rite
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Seamus Heaney
Archetype
Repetition
Rite
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Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación
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