Denis Donoghue is Henry James Professor of English and American Letters and University Professor at New York University. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Words Alone: The Poet T. S. Eliot (2000), The Practice of Reading (1998), and Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls (1995).
12 Ebooks par Denis Donoghue
Denis Donoghue: Adam’s Curse
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 hum …
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Denis Donoghue: Third Voice
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 …
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Denis Donoghue: Warrenpoint
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 pie …
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Donoghue Denis Donoghue: On Eloquence
On 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, …
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Denis Donoghue: Metaphor
Metaphor supposes that an ordinary word could have been used, but instead something unexpected appears. The point of a metaphor is to enrich experience by bringing different associations to mind, by …
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Donoghue Denis Donoghue: 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 …
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: House of the Seven Gables
Following on the heels of The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables was intended to be a far sunnier book than its predecessor and one that would illustrate “the folly” of tumbling down on po …
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