爱尔兰-英国诗人谢默斯·希尼及其文化平衡策略

谢默斯·希尼是1995年诺贝尔文学奖得主，他为地处北爱尔兰首府贝尔法斯特的母校女王大学带来了荣誉，诗人的母校也以希尼为荣。本书作者作为首位女王大学谢默斯·希尼诗歌研究中心的访问学者，与谢默斯·希尼有过多次思想的碰撞。本书就爱尔兰文化和谢默斯·希尼诗人身份问题进行了深入探讨，具有较高学术价值，值得研究爱尔兰文化的学者参阅。

李成坚博士，女，1969年出生于湖南湘潭。电子科技大学外国语学院副教授。攻读硕士和博士学位期间，先后师从湖南师范大学外语学院蒋洪新教授和中山大学外语学院区鋇教授。主要研究方向为当代英国、爱尔兰诗歌及文化研究。现已在《当代外国文学》《外国文学研究》《外语与外语教学》《外国文学动态》《四川外国语学院学报》等刊物上发表学术论文十余篇。
2003年4月至2004年3月，获国家留学基金管理委员会项目资助，先后在英国雷丁大学英文系、北爱尔兰女王大学英文学院学习，并成为女王大学谢默斯·希尼诗歌研究中心的首位访问学者。

Introduction Seamus Heaney, the Poet and His Poetic Career
Chapter One Seamus Heaney, an Irish-British Poet
1.1 Three Different Connotations of Irish
1.2 Heaney's An Open Letter and His Claim of Being Irish
1.3 The Greenness of the Irish Passport and Heaney's British/Irish Citizenships
1.4 Heaney's British/Irish Cultural Identities
1.5 The Issue of Identity Serving as a Startingpoint
Chapter Two Trajectory of Balance: The Best Way Out Is Through
2.1 Feminine-Masculine Balance between Irish and British Influences in the 1960s
2.1.1 Masculine British Influences from Hughes, Wordsworth and Hopkins
2.1.2 Feminine Irish Consciousness
2.2 Vowel-Consonant Balance in the Image of Ireland in the 1970s
2.2.1 Irish Politics in Bog-poems
2.2.2 Irish Culture in Place-poems
2. 2.3 Plight in Vowel-Consonant Marriage
2.3 Dialect-Adept Balance in Seeing Things since the 1980s
2.3.1 Social and Poetic Responsibilities
2.3.2 The Parochial and the Universal
2.3.3 Re-imagining Inheritance
Chapter Three Formation of Balance: Where All the Voices of the Education Come
3.1 First Prints by Early Life Experience
3.1.1 Mossbawn.. a Mix of Scot, English and Gaelic Etymology
3.1.2 An Anchor: Home and Early Education
3.2 Literary/Cultural Leadings and Summons
3.2.1 Heaney and Belfast Group
3.2.2 Heaney and Irish Literary Exemplars
3.2.3 Heaney and Field Day Theatre Company
3.3 Heaney as a Critic and a Translator
3.3.1 Heaney as a Critic
3.3.2 Heaney as a Translator
Chapter Four Significance of Balance. From Stillness into History
4.1 In Culture: Between the Homogeneous and the Heterogeneous
4.2 In Politics: Between Planters and Gaels
Conclusion Revision in Dialogues
Appendix Interviews and News Reports
Bibliography