‘The Troubles’ and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland in Seamus Heaney’s "The Cure at Troy"
Based on "Philoctetes", the tragic play by Sophocles, the poet Seamus Heaney creates his own version in "The Cure at Troy" to present the political and social problems in Northern Ireland during the period that became known euphemistically as ‘the Troubles’. This paper aims to h...
Main Author: | Juan José Cogolludo Díaz |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidad de La Rioja
2021-12-01
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Series: | Journal of English Studies |
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Online Access: | https://publicaciones.unirioja.es/ojs/index.php/jes/article/view/4439 |
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