Peter Mcdonald

Broschiertes Buch

Mistaken Identities

Poetry and Northern Ireland

Beschreibung

This study addresses questions of Northern Irish poetry and politics through close readings of a number of important writers. McDonald delivers a searching critique of nationalist cultural assumptions about Northern Ireland through illuminating readings of the province's best modern poets, including Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin, Louis MacNeice, Derek Mahon, Paul Muldoon, and others.

Autor

Emeritus Professor Peter McDonald was the inaugural head of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at Flinders University. In that role he joined the team that initiated the Flinders Medical Curriculum and established clinical and laboratory services for infectious diseases at Flinders Medical Centre.From Flinders, his research into antibiotic dosing was applied inter- nationally to reduce the rate of sepsis after surgery and employed in developing new antibiotics.As Chair of the Commonwealth AIDS Research Grants committee, he coordinated research in Australia that underpinned the control of HIV in Australia and contributed to global control.Professor McDonald played a role is health system reform by leading South Australian trials in coordinating health care and developing national infection-control guidelines.He was awarded AM for services to Infectious Diseases and control of HIV/AIDS.Robert Fitzsimons [PhD] has a special interest in South Australian history - one of several fields of historical research in which he was engaged over many years at Flinders University.Peter Preece is the grandson of W.G. (Gordon) Heaslip, who provided access to the Heaslip Diaries and facilitated contact with Gordon's family.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9780198186878
• ISBN-10: 0198186878
• Artikelnr.: 22480973