Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 2014 Toward a Northern Irish Pastoral: Reading the Rural in Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon Stephanie Jean Osburn Krassenstein Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Krassenstein, Stephanie Jean Osburn, "Toward a Northern Irish Pastoral: Reading the Rural in Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon" (2014). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 3988. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/3988 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized graduate school editor of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please
[email protected]. TOWARD A NORTHERN IRISH PASTORAL: READING THE RURAL IN SEAMUS HEANEY AND PAUL MULDOON A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of English by Stephanie Jean Osburn Krassenstein B.S., Indiana State University, 2006 M.A., Indiana State University, 2008 May 2014 When I came to Louisiana State University in the fall of 2010 to begin this program, my daughter, Lola Ann, was five weeks old. In many ways, the experience of obtaining a graduate degree has been much like that of parenting. Whether at work or at home, the last four years of my life have been all-consuming adventures, journeys populated by joy, terror, frustration, laughter, doubt, happiness, and profound good fortune.