Irish Temperament and Irish Talk’ : Desolation and Sense of Failure in Selected Plays of Brian Friel | ||||
| مجلة بحوث کلية الآداب . جامعة المنوفية | ||||
| Article 5, Volume 10, Issue 37, April 1999, Page 3-24 PDF (3.72 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/sjam.1999.140432 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Abdel-Moneim Aly* | ||||
| minufiya university | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| In his efforts to look at the reasons behind the political and social failure of a broken and decaying society, Friel has discovered as Seamus Deane puts it, the link between Irish temperament and Irish talk. The volatility which arises out of the need to compensate for this sense offailure slowly becomes a virtue. Deane contends: Out of volatility, one can make a style; style can give off the effect of brilliance; but the brightness of the effect is very often in inverse ratio to the emptiness for which it is a consolation. (’Introduction’ to Friel’s Selected Plays, p. 12) The idea of the eloquent outsider is a concept with a long tradition inlrishliterature | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Sense of Failure; Irish setters; Irish Talk; Irish Temperament | ||||
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