Critic's quotes Flashcards
his identity is altered…
and eroded by the arbitrary ritual of naming
genesis of…
modern divided Ireland in search of its soul and autonomy
set out to…
contribute to the solution to the present crisis
play has…
to do with language and only language
what has been…
renamed and mapped is a mutilated version of what was. Everything essential has been lost in translation
naming things has always…
a magical act…one of our crucial, distinctive powers…we attach our presence, our magic to the things we name
‘they are…
strangers to their own country
a people…
without a language of its own is only half a nation
united by the very…
thing that has caused so much division in the play - place names
a play about Ireland’s…
present griefs, the griefs of a people struggling to rediscover a lost identity and wholeness
Irish loses the ability to…
describe what it is and becomes, like Latin or Greek, a language only capable of saying what it used to be
there is neither use…
nor sense in lamenting what we have infallibly lost…be it well or ill, we cannot resemble our fathers
everything that…
is familiar is becoming strange
to translate is to…
descend beneath the exterior disparities of two languages in order to bring into vital play their analogies and, at the final depth, the common principles of being
takes with it…
a storehouse of consciousness
