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Introduction:Stargazing, Worldmaking and Worldmapping. The humanand inhuman, the poetical and geographical dimensions of Christoph Ransmayr'swork Stargazing and worldmapping:the human and inhuman dimensionsofChristoph Ransmayr'swork Stargazing in Dublin with O'Casey When the drunken, dreaming hero of Seán O'Casey's(almost) hundred year old play Juno and the Paycock lifts his head from the grinding poverty that earths his existence to gaze into the free-floating openness abovehim, he utters one of the great questions of Irish literature: "what is the stars, what is the stars?" (O'Casey 1980, 23). It is, of itself, asparkling question, twinkling brightly with all the fun and the tragedy, the irony and provocation that its context can muster. "What is the stars?" indeed: aquestion for religion,for science, for poets and dreamersand philosophers. It is not, however, an atural or proper question for the disenfranchised characters of the play, for those who are relentlessly bound and groundedbyearthy, earthly demands.The poor are disenfranchised then not just materially and politically, but disenfranchised because the big existential questions are deemed not theirs to proclaim. For them,

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Author

Caitríona Leahy; Marcel Illetschko; Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)

Publisher

V&R unipress. ein Imprint der Brill Deutschland GmbH

Published

2021

Language

DE

ISBN

9783737012195

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Collections, Memoir, Literary Fiction