Ironies Of Art Tragedies Of Life

Author : Liliana Sikorska
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Ironies of Art/tragedies of Life written by Liliana Sikorska and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2005 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Plato's Symposium, Socrates says that the true poet must be tragic and comic at the same time, and the whole of human life must be felt as a blend of tragedy and comedy. The present collection of essays investigates the presence of comic and tragic elements in Irish literature. The works by Irish authors, be they classical or contemporary, capture the struggles of the lives of individuals and communities in Ireland. Irish literature in various ways deals with the tragic and complex past of the country, as well as an equally interesting present. The irony of the art is always subliminally filled with tragic overtones. Irish literature most commonly presents life's ironies as inseparably linked with the personal tragedies of the characters. In literature, life is sometimes described, sometimes reflected in a distorted mirror. In reality, just as Plato claims, Irish literature appears as a blend of tragedy and comedy.

Author : J. Keating-Miller
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230275087
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish Literature written by J. Keating-Miller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland's history of contested language systems has always been linked to its political realities; Language, Identity and Liberation attends to a movement of contemporary Irish writing that considers the significance of the region's tumultuous cultural, social and political history in portrayals of contemporary Ireland's everyday life and speech.

Author : Irene De Angelis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230355196
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry written by Irene De Angelis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry provides a stimulating, original and lively analysis of the Irish-Japanese literary connection from the early 1960s to 2007. While for some this may partly remain Oscar Wilde's 'mode of style', this book will show that there is more of Japan in the work of contemporary Irish poets than 'a tinkling of china/ and tea into china.' Drawing on unpublished new sources, Irene De Angelis includes poets from a broad range of cultural backgrounds with richly varied styles: Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Ciaran Carson and Paul Muldoon, together with younger poets such as Sinéad Morrissey and Joseph Woods. Including close readings of selected poems, this is an indispensable companion for all those interested in the broader historical and cultural research on the effect of oriental literature in modernist and postmodernist Irish poetry.

Author : Jody Allen Randolph
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611485371
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Eavan Boland written by Jody Allen Randolph and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph providesthe fullest account yet of the work of a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature as well as in contemporary women’s writing. Eavan Boland’s achievement in changing the map of Irish poetry is tracked and analyzed from her first poems to the present. The book traces the evolution of that achievement, guiding the reader through Boland’s early attachment to Yeats, her growing unease with the absence of women’s writing, her encounter with pioneering American poets like Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, and Adrienne Rich, and her eventual, challenging amendments in poetry and prose to Ireland’s poetic tradition. Using research from private papers the book also traces a time of upheaval and change in Ireland, exploring Boland's connection to Mary Robinson, in a chapter that details the nexus of a woman president and a woman poet in a country that was resistant to both. Finally, this book invites the reader to share a compelling perspective on the growth of a poet described by one critic as Ireland’s “first great woman poet.”

Author : E. S. Shaffer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521390149
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Comparative Criticism: Volume 10, Comedy, Irony, Parody written by E. S. Shaffer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-11-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 10, dedicated to 'Comedy, Irony, Parody', celebrates the first decade of Comparative Criticism in a light-hearted vein. Michael Silk opens with a wide-ranging essay asserting the primacy of comedy and declaring its independence of tragedy. T. L. S. Sprigge explores philosophers who dared to write on laughter: Schopenhauer and Bergson. Bernard Harrison looks at the twentieth century's favourite comic novel, Tristram Shandy, in the light of Locke's views on 'the particular'. Peter Brand pursues the theatrical arts of disguises, masking, and gender-swapping through Renaissance Europe, from Ariosto to Shakespeare. Jane H. M. Taylor traces the danse macabre in modern 'black humour'. Christine Brooke-Rose, distinguished novelist and critic, reads from and comments on her own witty fictions. Michael Wood describes how Lolita outwitted her seducer.

Author : Marlene Springer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349063894
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Hardy’s Use of Allusion written by Marlene Springer and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-06-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Olga Tabachnikova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501324748
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Russian Irrationalism from Pushkin to Brodsky written by Olga Tabachnikova and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia, once compared to a giant sphinx, is often considered in the Anglophone world an alien culture, often threatening and always enigmatic. Although recognizably European, Russian culture also has mystical features, including the idiosyncratic phenomenon of Russian irrationalism. Historically, Russian irrationalism has been viewed with caution in the West, where it is often seen as antagonistic to, and subversive of, the rational foundations of Western speculative philosophy. Some of the remarkable achievements of the Russian irrationalist approach, however, especially in the artistic sphere, have been recognized and even admired, though not sufficiently investigated. Bridging the gap between intellectual cultures, Olga Tabachnikova discusses such fundamental irrationalist themes as language and the linguistic underpinning of culture; the power of illusion in national consciousness; the changing relationship between love and morality; the cultural roots of humour, as well as the relevance of various individual writers and philosophers from Pushkin to Brodsky to the construction of Russian irrationalism.

Author : Joyce Ann Joyce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877453208
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Richard Wright's Art of Tragedy written by Joyce Ann Joyce and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published (hardcover) in 1986. Joyce focuses specially on the stylistic characteristics of Wright's most successful novel to show how his language merges with his subject matter to illuminate Native son as a tragedy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : D. C. Muecke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315388324
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Irony and the Ironic written by D. C. Muecke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1970 and revised in 1982, this work provides a critical overview of the concept of irony in literary criticism. After establishing the relationship of the ironical and the non-ironical, it summarises the history of the concept of irony, before isolating and discussing its basic aspects and the variable features that determine its nature, effect and quality. The book will be a useful resource for those studying irony and English Literature.

Author : Mark William Roche
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791435465
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Tragedy and Comedy written by Mark William Roche and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first evaluation and critique of Hegel's theory of tragedy and comedy, this book also develops an original theory of both genres.