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W. B. Yeats The Celtic Twilight

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Englisch
39559 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
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I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined. I have, however, been at no pains to separate my own beliefs from those of the peasantry, but have rather let my men and women, dhouls and faeries, go their way unoffended or defended by any argument of mine. The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me. Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a little. [mehr]

Stichwörter: the celtic twilight, yeats, irish culture, celtic culture, celtic folklore, fairy tales, folk tales, irish literature

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James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Biografie/Autobiografie
Englisch
84781 Wörter
Ab 16 Jahren
443
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus, the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, and culminates with his self-exile from Ireland in Europe. The work uses techniques that Joyce developed more fully in Ulysses. The early youth of Stephen Dedalus is recounted at a vocabulary level of Stephen's own as he grows, in a voice not his own but sensitive to his feelings. The reader experiences Stephen's fears and bewilderment as he comes to terms with the world in a series of disjointed episodes. Stephen attends school at Jesuit-run Clongowes Wood College, where the apprehensive, intellectually gifted boy suffers the ridicule of his classmates while he learns the schoolboy codes of behaviour. While he cannot grasp their significance, at a Christmas dinner he is witness to the social, political, and religious tensions in Ireland involving Charles Stewart Parnell that drives bitter wedges between members of his family, leaving Stephen with doubts over which social institutions he can place his faith in.[16] Back at Clongowes, word spreads that a number of older boys have been caught "smugging"; discipline is tightened, and the Jesuits increase use of corporal punishment. Stephen is strapped when one of his instructors believes he has broken his glasses to avoid studying; prodded by his classmates, Stephen works up the courage to complain to the rector Father Conmee, who assures him there will be no such recurrence, leaving Stephen with a sense of triumph. [mehr]

Stichwörter: the portrait of the artist, as a young man, james joyce, modern literature, autobiography, irish literature

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Cornelius Weygandt Irish Plays And Playwrights (Fiscle Part-X)

Hobby und Handwerk
Englisch
95588 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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To The General Reader The Celtic Renaissance Was A Surprise, And Even To Irish Writers Deeply Interested In Their Country The Phenomenon Or Movement, Call It Which You Will, Was Not Appreciated As Of Much Significance At Its Beginning. Writing In 1892, Miss Jane Barlow Was Not Hopeful For The Immediate Future Of English Literature In Ireland;--It Seemed To Her "Difficult To Point Out Any Quarter Of The Horizon As A Probable Source Of Rising Light." Yet Mr. Yeats Had Published His "Wanderings Of Oisin" Three Years Before; Mr. Russell Had Already Gathered About Him A Group Of Eager Young Writers; And Dr. Hyde Was Organizing The Gaelic League, To Give Back To Ireland Her Language And Civilization, And Translating From The Gaelic "The Love Songs Of Connacht" (1894) Into An English Of So New And Masterful A Rhythm, That It Was To Dominate The Style Of Many Of The Writers Of The Movement, As The Burden Of The Verse Was To Confirm Them In The Feelings And Attitudes Of Mind, Centuries Old And Of To-Day, That Are Basic To The Irish Gael. Even In 1894, When Mrs. Katherine Tynan Hinkson Wrote The Article That For The First Time Brought Before America So Many Of The Younger English Poets, All That She Said Of The Renaissance Was, "A Very Large Proportion Of The Bodley Head Poets Are Celts,--Irish, Welsh, Cornish." She Had Scarcely So Spoken When There Appeared The Little Volume, "The Revival Of Irish Literature," Whose Chapters, Reprinted [mehr]

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Anonymous . Lives of SS. Declan and Mochuda

Kurzgeschichte
Englisch
34828 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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A most distinctive class of ancient Irish literature, and probably the class that is least popularly familiar, is the [mehr]

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John S. White The Boys' And Girls' Plutarch

Being Parts Of The "Lives" Of Plutarch Edited For Boys And Girls With Introductions

Belletristik
Englisch
142428 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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British literature refers to literature associated with the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands. This includes literatures from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. By far the largest part of British literature has been written in the English language, with English literature developing into a global phenomenon, because of its use in the former colonies of Britain. In addition the story of British literature involves writings in Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Saxon, Cornish, Guernésiais, Jèrriais, Latin, Manx, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and other languages. Literature in Northern Ireland includes writings in English, Irish and Ulster Scots. Irish writers have played an important part in the development of literature in England and Scotland, but though the whole of Ireland was politically part of the United Kingdom between January 1801 and December 1922, it is controversial to describe Irish literature as British. For some this includes works by authors from Northern Ireland. Also, because of the creation of the Republic of Ireland, the term the Isles is used instead of the British Isles. [mehr]

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