Finding Your Way Home: Explorations of the Journey Motif in Alan Riach’s Homecoming

• Authors: Keane, Barry

Abstracts

EN

This article endeavours to explore how Alan Riach in his poetry collection Homecoming (2009) treats the motif of home as an internationalist summation which locates and bolsters Scotland’s own sense of identity, contextualised in terms of the poet’s personal understanding of his own poetic purchase on the themes of remembering, leaving, finding, and rediscovering home. Moreover, critical attention is paid to the way Riach’s poems forge a construct wherein a cultural agenda represents the clearest way forward for the accomplishment of Scotland’s nationalist aspirations.

Keywords

EN

Scottish poetry; Alan Riach; cultural agenda; journey motif; memory

• Publisher: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
• Journal: Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 29/3
• Pages: 63-72

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Keane, Barry

Identifiers

DOI

10.7311/0860-5734.29.3.05

Biblioteka Nauki

888893