Heaney, Seamus

Antigone is a play that has haunted me for quite a while. Consumed with the decision Obama faced regarding American intervention in the Syrian conflict, I wanted to find a play that tackled the dilemma of impossible moral choices. Rereading Antigone, the similarities between the…

This dissertation is about the appropriation of classical Greek plots, personae, and even entire texts in Anglophone postcolonial works propounding themes of reconciliation. Key primary texts analyzed in the dissertation include James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), Derek Walcott's epic…