Background
Molino, Michael Robert was born on September 17, 1956 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Robert Anthony and Grace Marie (Smith) Molino.
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Seamus Heaney is often cited by critics as one of the most important poets writing in English since World War II. This study provides a detailed examination of Heaney's poetry and the political and cultural problems facing literary writers in Ireland today. Molino demonstrates that Heaney has had to come to terms with a literary tradition that is both a continuation of the past and a break from it. Heaney's poetry springs from a complex cultural debate that is often voiced in monologic terms by groups dedicated to defining an exclusive "Irish" tradition. Yet many Irish writers recognise, not one, but many competing and irreconcilable traditions whose collective, polyphonic voices are often in destructive conflict with each other. Molino rejects the notion that Heaney burrows into archetypes in hopes of discovering or reviving a lost origin of lost ties to the past; he also rejects the notion that Heaney turns to the past in order to evade current political and cultural conflicts facing Ireland. In the author's view, Heaney explores the multiplicity of voices that constitute Ireland's traditions, literature, and history. Amid these voices the British question lingers, as Heaney must acknowledge a debt to the British literary tradition while recognising Britain's long history of hegemony in Ireland. This work is founded in a variety of critical and theoretical sources, including Heaney's own critical and creative writing, the standard critical assessments of Heaney's poetry, and the influential theoretical writings that emphasise post-structural, social-text or post-colonial analysis.
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Molino, Michael Robert was born on September 17, 1956 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Robert Anthony and Grace Marie (Smith) Molino.
Bachelor, University South Florida, 1982. Master of Arts, University South Florida, 1984. Doctor of Philosophy, Marquette University, 1991.
Instructor, Iowa State University, Ames, 1988-1992; instructor, U. Missouri, Rolla, 1992-1994; instructor, Virginia Commonwealth U., Richmond, 1994-1995; assistant professor, Bradley U., Peoria, Illinois, 1995-1998; assistant professor, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, since 1998.
(Seamus Heaney is often cited by critics as one of the mos...)
Sergeant United States Air Force, 1975-1979. Member Modern Language Association, American Conference for Irish Studies, Semiotic Society of America.
Married Mary Louise Bogumil, March 14, 1987.
