| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 312 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; References; Chapter 2: Social Man; European Modernism and the Concept of Character; Between Material and Immaterial-An Aesthetic Man: William Butler Yeats; Migrations of the Soul; Human Artefact; Powerless Ecstasy; Travelling Man: John Millington Synge; Travelling Documentarist; Community in Retreat; Rebels in Motion; Revolutionary Man: S. O'Casey; Cycles of History; Unfinished Revolutions; Static Explorations; References; Chapter 3: Linguistic Man; The Post-war Drama of Europe: Language and After |
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Performance Man: Brian FrielDefensive Performance; Impossible Exiles; Spoken Landscapes; Religious Man: Tom Murphy; In Search for Darkness; Reviving the Spirit; Codes of Culture; References; Chapter 4: Interactive Man; Contemporary Drama: Postmodernism and After; Historical Man: Frank McGuinness; Private Histories; Digesting Cultural Artefacts; Visual Man; Theatricalising Visuality; Interrupted Man: Enda Walsh; Facing the Non-human; Conclusion; References; Index |
| Summary |
This book is about the history of character in modern Irish drama. It traces the changing fortunes of the human self in a variety of major Irish plays across the twentieth century and the beginning of the new millennium. Through the analysis of dramatic protagonists created by such authors as Yeats, Synge, O'Casey, Friel and Murphy, and McGuinness and Walsh, it tracks the development of aesthetic and literary styles from modernism to more recent phenomena, from Celtic Revival to Celtic Tiger, and after. The human character is seen as a testing ground and battlefield for new ideas, for social philosophies, and for literary conventions through which each historical epoch has attempted to express its specific cultural and literary identity. In this context, Irish drama appears to be both part of the European literary tradition, engaging with its most contentious issues, and a field of resistance to some conventions from continental centres of avant-garde experimentation. Simultaneously, it follows artistic fashions and redefines them in its critical contribution to European artistic and theatrical diversity. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Irish drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English drama -- Irish authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Art and society.
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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Art and society |
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English drama -- Irish authors |
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Irish drama |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lachman, Michał. Performing character in modern Irish drama. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018] 3319765345 9783319765341 (OCoLC)1020601822 |
| ISBN |
9783319765358 (electronic bk.) |
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3319765353 (electronic bk.) |
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9783319765341 |
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3319765345 |
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