TY  - BOOK
AU  - Liliana Sikorska
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Ironies of Art/Tragedies of Life
T2  - Essays on Irish Literature
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1100017
N2  - 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.
KW  - Englisch, Literatur, Irland, Geschichte 1800-2000, Aufsatzsammlung, Medievalism, Irish Nationalism, Comic Element /Irish Literature, Catholicism /Ireland, Tragic Element /Irish Literature
LA  - English
ER  -