RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 The Dead Republic, by Roddy Doyle: The Wisdom of Comic Heroism
A1 Díaz Bild, María Aída
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
AB Roddy Doyle is a writer who has reflected that human existence is an interplay between comedy and tragedy, and that therefore all kinds of evils—fanaticism, absolutism, dogmatism—result from cultivating only the tragic perspective. This becomes obvious in The Dead Republic (2010), a novel in which Henry Smart’s comic attitude to life allows Doyle to offer the reader a detached and non-sentimental view of contemporary Irish history. Both John Ford and the IRA want to reshape Henry’s story as a Republican hero to fit their own notion of Irishness and it is precisely in Henry’s response to this perversion of Irish history, politics and national identity that he reveals himself as the perfect comic hero and debunks all efforts to mystify the past.
SN 2531-1654
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/33714
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/33714
LA eng
NO ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies; No 39 (2018) pags. 233-254
DS UVaDOC
RD 20-may-2024