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21 produkter
Adam's Curse
Reflections on Religion and Literature
Inbunden, 2001
1767 kr
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Taking its title from a poem by Yeats, this collection of essays focuses on the burdens and harsh conditions that, as Denis Donoghue underscores throughout, make any human achievement difficult. The essays explore both faith and literary works that engage faith, from Milton to Larkin.
Adam's Curse
Reflections on Religion and Literature
Häftad, 2001
617 kr
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W.B. Yeats's poem “Adam's Curse” provides Donoghue with motif and incentive. In his Erasmus Lectures, Donoghue thinks about the lasting difficulties involved in understanding, and living with, cultural, literary, and religious values that are in restless relation to one another.
Adam's Curse
Reflections on Religion and Literature
E-bok, 2001
418 kr
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Taking its title from a poem of William Butler Yeats, this collection of essays focuses on "Adam's Curse"—the burdens and harsh conditions that, as Denis Donoghue underscores throughout, make any human achievement difficult. As he says, those "conditions include at various levels of reference the …
Practice of Reading
Häftad, 2000
607 kr
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This lucid and elegantly written book is a sustained conversation about the nature and importance of literary interpretation. Distinguished critic Denis Donoghue argues that we must read texts closely and imaginatively, as opposed to merely or mistakenly theorizing about them. He shows what serious …
Words Alone
The Poet T. S. Eliot
Häftad, 2002
628 kr
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When Denis Donoghue left Warrenpoint and went to Dublin in September 1946, he entered University College as a student of Latin and English. A few months later he also started as a student of lieder at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. These studies have informed his reading of English, Irish, and …
Speaking of Beauty
Häftad, 2004
481 kr
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A foremost critic of the English language here reflects on beauty and the language that it inspires in authors from Kant to Keats, Hawthorne to Housman. “An excellent and eloquent book.”—James Wood, New York Times Book Review“A beautiful book about beauty. Enormously learned, allusive, …
American Classics
A Personal Essay
Inbunden, 2003
987 kr
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An eminent literary critic explores five American classics How is a classic book to be defined? How much time must elapse before a work may be judged a “classic”? And among all the works of American literature, which deserve the designation? In this provocative new book, Denis Donoghue answers …
On Eloquence
Häftad, 2010
460 kr
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An eloquent reminder of why we should care about—and revel in—eloquence in literature and speechOn Eloquence questions the common assumption that eloquence is merely a subset of rhetoric, a means toward a rhetorical end. Denis Donoghue, an eminent and prolific critic of the English language, holds …
Walter Pater
Lover of Strange Souls
E-bok, 2013
240 kr
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A TWENTIETH-CENTURY intellectual of the first rank presents the case for the nineteenth-century aesthetician whose elegant subversions delivered us to modernism. Walter Pater (1839-1894) was an obscure Oxford don until 1873, when his first book, The Renaissance, exposed his argument favoring …
Jonathan Swift
A Critical Introduction
Häftad, 2010
787 kr
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In this concise critical survey, Professor Donoghue looks at Swift's whole output, and expresses a fresh sense of his literary character. In particular, he questions the widespread view that Swift is to be understood in terms of irony, persona or mask. He points out, for instance, that Swift's …
Irish Essays
Häftad, 2011
494 kr
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Denis Donoghue has been a key figure in Irish studies and an important public intellectual in Ireland, the UK and US throughout his career. These essays represent the best of his writing and operate in conversation with one another. He probes the questions of Irish national and cultural identity …
Metaphor
Inbunden, 2014
478 kr
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Denis Donoghue turns his attention to the practice of metaphor and to its lesser cousins, simile, metonym, and synecdoche. Metaphor (“a carrying or bearing across”) supposes that an ordinary word could have been used in a statement but hasn’t been. Instead, something else, something unexpected, …
Third Voice
Modern British and American Drama
Häftad, 2015
945 kr
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In this stimulating survey of the entire field of modern English verse drama, William Butler Yeats and T.S. Eliot are regarded as the key figures. Shorter studies are included of Christopher Fry, E.E. Cummings, W.H. Auden, Archibald MacLeish, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Richard Eberhart. …
Third Voice
Modern British and American Drama
Inbunden, 2016
2303 kr
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In this stimulating survey of the entire field of modern English verse drama, William Butler Yeats and T.S. Eliot are regarded as the key figures. Shorter studies are included of Christopher Fry, E.E. Cummings, W.H. Auden, Archibald MacLeish, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Richard Eberhart. …
Emily Dickinson - American Writers 81
University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers
Häftad, 1969
291 kr
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Emily Dickinson - American Writers 81 was first published in 1969. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
Irish Essays
Inbunden, 2011
1554 kr
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Denis Donoghue has been a key figure in Irish studies and an important public intellectual in Ireland, the UK and US throughout his career. These essays represent the best of his writing and operate in conversation with one another. He probes the questions of Irish national and cultural identity …
Third Voice
Modern British and American Drama
E-bok, 2015
738 kr
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In this stimulating survey of the entire field of modern English verse drama, William Butler Yeats and T.S. Eliot are regarded as the key figures. Shorter studies are included of Christopher Fry, E.E. Cummings, W.H. Auden, Archibald MacLeish, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Richard …
Warrenpoint
Häftad, 2013
158 kr
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"Warrenpoint" is a memoir, and more than a memoir: with moments of novelistic narrative and lyricism wedded to musings on the aesthetic and theological themes of the author's coming of age--filial piety, original sin, a child's perceptions, and then the nature of terrorism, and of reading …
Warrenpoint
E-bok, 2013
181 kr
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Warrenpoint is a memoir, and more than a memoir: with moments of novelistic narrative and lyricism wedded to musings on the aesthetic and theological themes of the author''s coming of age—filial piety, original sin, a child''s perceptions, and then the nature of terrorism, and of reading itself—it …
Correction of Taste
The Late Fiction of Henry James
Inbunden, 2025
247 kr
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‘Donoghue was alert to the idea of the unsayable, as he circled around the idea of language itself as pliable material, all the more beautiful for that and worthy of our full consideration, but yielding at times to further levels of mystery...’ from foreword by Colm Tóibín In this last written …
