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Subjectivity as Alterity in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 49, Number 2, June 2016
- pp. 113-132
- 10.1353/mos.2016.a621131
- Article
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In Seamus Heaney’s poetry, the subject challenges and dissociates himself from the Other in order to create his own self. He becomes a stranger to society and is exiled. The distance paves the way for creating the self and affirming his identity as an independent subject.