Tragedy And Irish Literature

Author : R. McDonald
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 140391365X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tragedy and Irish Literature written by R. McDonald and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-12-17 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tragedy and Irish Literature, McDonald considers the culture of suffering, loss, and guilt in the work of J.M. Synge, Sean O'Casey and Samuel Beckett. He applies external ideas of tragedy to the three dramatists and also discerns particular sorts of tragedy within their own work. While alert to the real differences between the three writers, the book also traces common themes and preoccupations. It identifies a conflict between form and content, between heightened language and debased reality as the hallmark of Irish tragedy.

Author : Ronan McDonald
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333923931
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tragedy and Irish Literature written by Ronan McDonald and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-03-20 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tragedy and Irish Writing McDonald considers the culture of suffering, loss, and guilt in the work of Synge, O'Casey, and Beckett. He applies external ideas of tragedy to the three dramatists and also discerns particular sorts of tragedy within their own work. While alert to the real differences among the three, the book also traces common themes and preoccupations. It identifies a conflict between form and content, between heightened language and debased reality, as the hallmark of Irish tragedy.

Author : Tim Pat Coogan
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1474605087
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1916: The Easter Rising written by Tim Pat Coogan and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Easter Rising began at 12 noon on 24 April, 1916 and lasted for six short but bloody days, resulting in the deaths of innocent civilians, the destruction of many parts of Dublin and the true beginning of Irish independence. The 1916 Rising was born out of the Conservative and Unionist parties' illegal defiance of the democratically expressed wish of the Irish electorate for Home Rule; and of confusion, mishap and disorganisation, compounded by a split within the Volunteer leadership. Tim Pat Coogan introduces the major players, themes and outcomes of a drama that would profoundly affect twentieth-century Irish history. Not only is this the story of a turning point in Ireland's struggle for freedom, but also a testament to the men and women of courage and conviction who were prepared to give their lives for what they believed was right.

Author : Declan Kiberd
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674981669
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Ireland written by Declan Kiberd and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political failures and globalization have eroded Ireland’s sovereignty—a decline portended in Irish literature. Surveying the bleak themes in thirty works by modern writers, Declan Kiberd finds audacious experimentation that embodies the defiance and resourcefulness of Ireland’s founding spirit—and a strange kind of hope for a more open nation.

Author : Brian Arkins
Publisher : Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781788748704
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Appropriation of Greek Tragedy written by Brian Arkins and published by Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an analysis of more than 30 plays written by Irish dramatists and poets that are based on the tragedies of Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. These plays proceed from the time of Yeats and Synge through MacNeice and the Longfords on to many of today's leading writers.

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

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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 : Marianne McDonald
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amid Our Troubles written by Marianne McDonald and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2002-06-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of provocative essays reveals how some of the great Irish poets and dramatists of the past and present, have drawn on Greek myths and used these stories to bring new insights on the world in which we now live.

Author : Shaun Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521008730
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama written by Shaun Richards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Logan Marshall
Publisher : Philadelpia? : s.n.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland written by Logan Marshall and published by Philadelpia? : s.n.. This book was released on 1914 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael K. Reynolds
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433678195
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight of the Earls written by Michael K. Reynolds and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic story of an Irish family in the 1840s immigrating to America, where love, adventure, tragedy, and a terrible secret are waiting.