A Tale of Two Tales: Irony, Identity and the Fictions of Anthony Cronin and Brian O’Nolan

A Tale of Two Tales: Irony, Identity and the Fictions of Anthony Cronin and Brian O’Nolan

This essay examines two novels by Anthony Cronin in order to argue that a tendency towards either proliferation or subtraction determines late Irish modernist aesthetics. Having established that the repetition of material in Cronin's texts indicates a tendency towards subtract...

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Main Author: Rodney Sharkey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2021-06-01
Series:The Parish Review
Subjects:
Aesthetics
Subtraction
Proliferation
Irish literary modernism
Dead as Doornails
Life of Riley
Online Access:https://parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/3296/
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spelling doaj-1e2bbaf03d644436bfa2b025f09939832021-09-06T14:17:02ZengOpen Library of HumanitiesThe Parish Review2634-145X2021-06-015110.16995/pr.3296A Tale of Two Tales: Irony, Identity and the Fictions of Anthony Cronin and Brian O’NolanRodney Sharkey0Pre-Medical Department, Weill Cornell MedicineThis essay examines two novels by Anthony Cronin in order to argue that a tendency towards either proliferation or subtraction determines late Irish modernist aesthetics. Having established that the repetition of material in Cronin's texts indicates a tendency towards subtraction, the essay positions Brian O'Nolan's work within a modernist tradition that favours proliferation, and concludes by arguing that the role irony plays in successful proliferation is problematic for a socialist literary aesthetic.https://parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/3296/AestheticsSubtractionProliferationIrish literary modernismDead as DoornailsLife of Riley
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A Tale of Two Tales: Irony, Identity and the Fictions of Anthony Cronin and Brian O’Nolan
The Parish Review
Aesthetics
Subtraction
Proliferation
Irish literary modernism
Dead as Doornails
Life of Riley
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title A Tale of Two Tales: Irony, Identity and the Fictions of Anthony Cronin and Brian O’Nolan
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title_full A Tale of Two Tales: Irony, Identity and the Fictions of Anthony Cronin and Brian O’Nolan
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description This essay examines two novels by Anthony Cronin in order to argue that a tendency towards either proliferation or subtraction determines late Irish modernist aesthetics. Having established that the repetition of material in Cronin's texts indicates a tendency towards subtraction, the essay positions Brian O'Nolan's work within a modernist tradition that favours proliferation, and concludes by arguing that the role irony plays in successful proliferation is problematic for a socialist literary aesthetic.
topic Aesthetics
Subtraction
Proliferation
Irish literary modernism
Dead as Doornails
Life of Riley
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