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Denis Donoghue

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Denis Donoghue, born in 1928, is an esteemed academic known for his work in literary criticism and literary theory, particularly in the field of American literary criticism. His academic career has spanned various domains, including poetry, fiction, and drama.

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“Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything.”

Want Believe Done Language Can Do Knowing

Author:Denis Donoghue

“A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.”

Looks Art Mystery Expression Metaphor Critical Paradox Discourse Syntax Tautology

Author:Denis Donoghue

“The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.”

Art Real Reality Break Exercise Monopoly Defining

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“There is no good reason to suppose that whatever can be felt can be expressed in words, or indeed in any articulate form.”

Reason Form Felt

Author:Denis Donoghue

“Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.”

Would Be Literature Imagine Engagement

Author:Denis Donoghue

“If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But the scale doesn't matter.”

Ifs Country Matter Facts Seems Experience Scales Division Distinctive

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“The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur in the observer's mind; strong enough to send him into battle perhaps, but not to have him understand why he is going.”

Mind Enough Strong Process Interest Battle Cameras Vague Observers Strong Enough Blur

Author:Denis Donoghue

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Born: 1928
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