Overview :Denis Donoghue turns his attention to the practice of metaphor and to its lesser cousins, simile, metonym, and synecdoche. Metaphor ("a carr... Read More
Overview :Denis Donoghue has been a key figure in Irish studies and an important public intellectual in Ireland, the UK and US throughout his career. ... Read More
Overview :A foremost critic of the English language here reflects on beauty and the language that it inspires in authors from Kant to Keats, Hawthorne... Read More
Overview :This lucid and elegantly written book is a sustained conversation about the nature and importance of literary interpretation. Distinguished ... Read More
Overview :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 ... Read More
Overview :W. B. Yeats's poem "Adam's Curse" provides Donoghue with motif and incentive. In Genesis God says to Adam: "Because thou hast harkened unto ... Read More
Overview :When Denis Donoghue left Warrenpoint and went to Dublin in September 1946, he entered University College as a student of Latin and English. ... Read More
Overview :"We work in the dark--we do what we can--we give what we have. The rest is the madness of art." These words, spoken by a dying novelist in "... Read More