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The Way of the Cat

Chichester-Clark, Emma

ENRIGHT, D.J.

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The way of the cat

Harperperennial

Literature & Fiction

Perennial

Including all the poems D. J. Enright wishes to retain, this collection features works from each of his books published between 1953 and 1975

Collected Poems

Enright, Dennis Joseph

Poetry

Oxford University Press

When Jonathan Swift suggested in 1729, in his pamphlet A Modest Proposal, that the Irish might survive overpopulation if only they could be persuaded to eat their own babies, the Irishman was employing that favorite tool of writers and wits: irony. Now, in an entertaining and intriguing new book, D. J. Enright, acclaimed editor of The Oxford Book of Death, has turned his attention to the practice of irony and its many manifestations in both literature and life. Aiming to pursue personal ironies, both verbal and situational, Enright has observed their twists and turns in his own inimitable style. The author takes a fresh look at irony in the works of Shakespeare, Austen, James, Proust and Freud, and a briefer look at such conspicous practitioners as Swift, Fielding and Hardy. He goes on to review the use of irony, or what resembles it, in the works of Pope, Dickens, Conrad, Brecht and other more recent writers. Religion, politics, censorship, love and death are all mined for their rich lode of ironic situations. Among other themes discussed are the perils of irony unrecognised and irony wrongly presumed; the risks run by self-ironists; and the questions "Does romantic irony exist?" and "Must irony have a victim? Can it be sweet?". Enright's reflections vary from musings on the absurdities of acronyms like AIDS and CREEP to a consideration of the apparent absence of irony in China. Although irony commonly generates laughter, some have observed that it can be no laughing matter. But the author concludes this witty and elegant book by noting that, "while irony is an ambiguous gift... it is a gift all the same."

The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony

D.J. Enright, eminent poet and critic, also cited by The New York Times as "an admirable reviewer and anthologist," has here collected a broad range of cultural essays covering the subjects literature, language, and television. Though a native of England, Enright has traveled extensively and taught in such places as Egypt, Japan, Germany, and Singapore (where he lived for 10 years). His sensibility is certainly a multi-cultural one, as is evident in his references to The Phil Donohue Show, Don DeLillo's White Noise, and other signposts of the American cultural landscape. Fields of Vision begins with a series of perceptive, analytic essays on the successes and failures of television, and the impact it has had on our lives. What distinguishes these from other such essays is the by now characteristic wit Enright brings to his writing. "The trouble with soap opera," he writes, "is that once it is on to a good thing, it can't get off it." And of talk shows ("chat shows") he predicts, "It is they who will finally kill off the so-called art of conversation." In "Copulation Explosion," on what he considers the over-abundance of sex on television, he offers, "[Sex] can be explored, fully or otherwise, in the doing, not in the viewing." The second section, on literature, focuses on works that do not lend themselves to screen adaptation, and to writers such as Günter Grass, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Czeslaw Milosz who depict worlds still inhabited by "wonder, and the fear and dread and splendour and freedom of wonder." Here, in reviews and essays, Enright explores the literary contribution of some of the major writers of our time, as well as their preoccupations, the nature of writing, and the future of literature. Enright's essays on language center on language as a living thing, with notes on usage, etymologies, and misappropriations. In "Vulgar Tongues," for instance, he observes, with Jacques Barzun, that "the word 'literate' once denoted the ability to read and write, whereas nowadays reviewers praise authors for being literate as if it were an extraordinary state of affairs." Further, he cites Barzun's opinion that "this shift is the result of the prevalence of bad prose and (more cheeringly) of a new worry about the state of the language." Broad-ranging, perceptive, and often entertaining, these essays are the work of one of our most trenchant literary critics. They will in turn delight and inform readers interested in linguistics, literature, and media studies, as well as those who simply read books and watch television.

Fields of Vision: Essays on Literature, Language, and Television

Essays & Correspondence

This anthology offers substantial selections from the work of forty poets who have emerged and confirmed their talents since 1945. American and Commonwealth writers appear alongside British writers, though it is not the individual countries of the English-speaking world that the volume seeks to represent so much as poetry itself, and more especially what the editor calls 'the poetry of civility, passion and order'.

The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse, 1945-1980

Oxford Univ. Pr.

D.J. Enright needs little introduction as one of the finest poets writing today. He "is a major poet who quietly but insistently reminds us that civilization still matters"(The Times, London). Collected Poems 1987 replaces Enright's earlier collection and represents all the work the poet wishes to retain. This volume includes three verse sequences in full, The Terrible Shears (1973), Paradise Illustrated (1978) and A Faust Book (1979), to which is now added the most recent, Instant Chronicles (1985). A substantial group of recent poems brings the volume up to date.

Collected Poems: 1987 (Oxford Poets)

When Jonathan Swift suggested in 1729, in his pamphlet A Modest Proposal, that the Irish might survive overpopulation if only they could be persuaded to eat their own babies, the Irishman was employing that favorite tool of writers and wits: irony. Now, in an entertaining and intriguing new book, D. J. Enright, acclaimed editor of The Oxford Book of Death, has turned his attention to the practice of irony and its many manifestations in both literature and life. Aiming to pursue personal ironies, both verbal and situational, Enright has observed their twists and turns in his own inimitable style.    The author takes a fresh look at irony in the works of Shakespeare, Austen, James, Proust and Freud, and a briefer look at such conspicous practitioners as Swift, Fielding and Hardy. He goes on to review the use of irony, or what resembles it, in the works of Pope, Dickens, Conrad, Brecht and other more recent writers.    Religion, politics, censorship, love and death are all mined for their rich lode of ironic situations. Among other themes discussed are the perils of irony unrecognised and irony wrongly presumed; the risks run by self-ironists; and the questions "Does romantic irony exist?" and "Must irony have a victim? Can it be sweet?". Enright's reflections vary from musings on the absurdities of acronyms like AIDS and CREEP to a consideration of the apparent absence of irony in China.    Although irony commonly generates laughter, some have observed that it can be no laughing matter. But the author concludes this witty and elegant book by noting that, "while irony is an ambiguous gift... it is a gift all the same."

The alluring problem: An essay on irony

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

The author - a poet, critic and novelist - concerns himself not with theories of irony, but with its practice, as attack or defence, in both literature and life. He examines individual ironies, verbal and situational, and attempts to gauge their outcome in various spheres: religion, politics, censorship, love and death. He looks at irony as seen in Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust, James, Freud, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Conrad, Mann, Brecht and more recent writers. He discusses irony unrecognized and irony wrongly presumed. The study views irony as a style and as an approach to life and defends it as an often misunderstood attitude. Enright considers both the objections brought against irony and its role in humour.

The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony (Oxford Paperbacks)

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The Way of the Cat

The way of the cat

The Way of the Cat

Collected Poems

The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony

Fields of Vision: Essays on Literature, Language, and Television

The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse, 1945-1980

Collected Poems: 1987 (Oxford Poets)

The alluring problem: An essay on irony

The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony (Oxford Paperbacks)