Seamus Heaney: Legacies, Afterlives. A critical evaluation of the writert's entire oeuvre to date.

谢默斯·希尼：《遗产，来世》旨在对他的全部作品提供迄今为止最详细、最全面和最容易理解的评估，因为它将考察他的诗歌、翻译、戏剧和批评，将这些联系到北爱尔兰自1939年以来的历史和文化中，并考察他作为一名主要国际诗人的崛起。这本书借鉴了英国、爱尔兰和美国进行的原始档案研究，并仔细阅读了已出版和未出版的材料，这将为他在世界各地的读者提供对诗人及其创作的新见解，这本书最初确立了构成诗人创作的复杂、多重遗产--家庭和社区、神圣和世俗、爱尔兰和英国。它展示了他的艺术是如何在Trouble早期(1969-75)扩大范围和雄心的，因为他的文学视野加深和拓宽，涵盖了跨越时间、文化和大陆的不断扩大的文学范围。通过与其他文学、文化和历史的关系，以及作为重读行为的结果，希尼的文学文本获得了“来世”，积累了源于其原始生产和接受环境的共鸣和意义，但这些共鸣和意义超出了它们最初的生产和接受的环境。这本书被认为是对当代关于文学的辩论的重大贡献，尤其是那些关注艺术的审美、政治和道德功能的辩论。它将对世界各地的学者和学生具有特殊的价值，并引起对文学及其与政治和历史的交叉感兴趣的大量普通读者的兴趣。

Seamus Heaney: Legacies, Afterlives aims to provide the most detailed, comprehensive and accessible assessment yet of the totality of his work, since it will examine his poetry, translations, drama and criticism, contextualising these within Northern Irish history and culture since 1939, and examining his emergence as a major international poet. Drawing on original archival research carried out in Britain, Ireland and the United States, and meticulous close readings of published and unpublished material, this will provide his readership worldwide with fresh insights into the poet and his making, Initially the book establishes the complex, multiple legacies - familial and communal, sacred and secular, Irish and British - that framed the poet's making. It illustrates how his art expands in scope and ambition during the Troubles' early years (1969-75), as his literary field of vision deepens and widens to encompass an expanding range of literatures, across time, cultures and continents. Through their relationship with other literatures, cultures and histories, and as a result of acts of re-reading, Heaney's literary texts acquire 'afterlives', accumulating resonances and meanings which stem from, but extend beyond the circumstances of their original production and reception. The book is envisaged as a highly significant contribution to contemporary debates about literature, not least those concerned with the aesthetic, political and moral functions of art. It will be exceptional value to academics and students worldwide, and of interest to the large number of general readers with an interest in literature and its intersections with politics and history.