Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies, September 22nd, 2007
In 'Dumbness and Eloquence: A Note on English as We Write it in Ireland', Seamus Deane argues that 'Irish writing in the English language' has been, and still is, 'obsessed with the problems involved in the idea of representation', how to record in a creditable way an Irish community or communities that are supposed to have always been misrepresented. (1) The English language seems to be 'ultimately insufficient for the purpose[s] of representation': whereas it provides a '[m]etropolitan sophistication and eloquence', there is also a native aspect, an 'index of authentic feeling', which is l...
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