Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Preoccupying Questions: Heaney's Prose -- 2 Continuous Adjudication: Binary Oppositions and the Field of Force -- 3 Writing in the Sand: Poetry and Transformation -- 4 Surviving Amphibiously: Poetry and Politics -- 5 A Bright Nowhere: The Deconstruction of Place -- 6 Through-Otherness: The Deconstruction of Language -- 7 Nobel Causes: Heaney and Yeats -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography of Seamus Heaney's Works -- General Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.