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Article: Irony in the poetry of Nissim Ezekiel.
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
- Author:
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One cannot squarely concede to what Charles I. Glicksberg observes in his study of the ironic vision in modern literature. He believes that the writer "will allow no illusions, however consolatory, to stand in his way of apprehending and interpreting reality that is infinitely complex, ambiguous, enigmatic, if not unknowable; he will not indulge in the vice of pathos nor in the weakness of sentimental pity. . . . He has no exalted notion of his mission as an artist; the creative function, too, is exposed to ironic devaluation; his work is a scheme, a way of spinning out of the tedious threads of time, a means, one among many, of enduring the gratuitous burden of ...
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