Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-205) and index
'Preoccupying questions' : Heaney's prose -- 'Continuous adjudication' : binary oppositions and the field of force -- 'Writing in the sand' : poetry and transformation -- 'Surviving amphibiously' : poetry and politics -- 'A bright nowhere' : the deconstruction of place -- 'Through-otherness' : the deconstruction of language -- Nobel causes : Heaney and Yeats