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Temps de fonctionnement: 08:18 hrsVoix de: George O'BrienPublisher:Recorded Books, 2011
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- Author: O'Brien, GeorgeEdition: UnabridgedDate:,Created2011Copyrighted2006Summary:
Georgetown University professor George O'Brien provides the biographical background of the four masters of Irish literature and an in-depth analysis of their greatest works. O'Brien discusses the very qualities that set these works apart and the "Irishness" that characterizes each of them.
Contents:- Out of Ireland
- Oscar Wilde : critic as artist, artist as critic
- Oscar Wilde : social comedian
- The life of Sebastian Melmoth
- W.B. Yeats : from the Celtic twilight
- W.B. Yeats: the national poet
- W.B. Yeats : the triumph of faliure
- James Joyce : the Dublin writer
- James Joyce : the European writer
- James Joyce : the universal writer
- Samuel Beckett : the absurdist
- Beckett and the novel
- Samuel Beckett : "Fail again, fail better"
- Tradition and its discontents.
Sujets: Authors, Irish | Beckett, Samuel | Biography | English literature | History and criticism | Irish authors | Joyce, James | Wilde, Oscar | Yeats, W. BOriginal Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md., Recorded BooksLanguage(s): EnglishISBN: 9781449897857