Understanding Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama

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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611176638
Total Pages : 206 pages
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Book Synopsis Understanding Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama by : Margaret Hallissy

Download or read book Understanding Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama written by Margaret Hallissy and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the key themes and events essential to understanding Irish fiction and drama In Understanding Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama, Margaret Hallissy examines the work of a cross-section of important Irish writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries who are representative of essential issues and themes in the canon of contemporary Irish literature. Included are early figures John Millington Synge and James Joyce; dramatists Brian Friel, Conor McPherson, and Tom Murphy; and prize-winning contemporary fiction writers such as Edna O'Brien, Joseph O'Connor, William Trevor, Roddy Doyle, and Colum McCann. Each chapter focuses on one significant representative piece of contemporary Irish fiction or drama by filling in its cultural, historical, and literary background. Hallissy identifies a key theme or key event in the Irish past essential to understanding the work. She then analyzes earlier literary compositions with the same theme and through a close reading of the contemporary work provides context for that background. The chapters are organized chronologically by relevant historical events, with thematic discussions interspersed. Background pieces were chosen for their places in Irish literature and the additional insight they provide into the featured works.

Screening Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031045688
Total Pages : 290 pages
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Book Synopsis Screening Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama by : Marc C. Conner

Download or read book Screening Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama written by Marc C. Conner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, each chapter explores significant Irish texts in their literary, cultural, and historical contexts. With an introduction that establishes the multiple critical contexts for Irish cinema, literature, and their adaptive textual worlds, the volume addresses some of the most popular and important late 20th-Century and 21st Century works that have had an impact on the Irish and global cinema and literary landscape. A remarkable series of acclaimed and profitable domestic productions during the past three decades has accompanied, while chronicling, Ireland’s struggle with self-identity, national consciousness, and cultural expression, such that the story of contemporary Irish cinema is in many ways the story of the young nation’s growth pains and travails. Whereas Irish literature had long stood as the nation’s foremost artistic achievement, it is not too much to say that film now rivals literature as Ireland’s key form of cultural expression. The proliferation of successful screen versionings of Irish fiction and drama shows how intimately the contemporary Irish cinema is tied to the project of both understanding and complicating (even denying) a national identity that has undergone radical change during the past three decades. This present volume is the first to present a collective accounting of that productive synergy, which has seen so much of contemporary Irish literature transferred to the screen.

Screening Modern Irish Fiction and Drama

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331940928X
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book Screening Modern Irish Fiction and Drama written by R. Barton Palmer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of the relationship between Modern Irish Literature and the Irish cinema, with twelve chapters written by experts in the field that deal with principal films, authors, and directors. This survey outlines the influence of screen adaptation of important texts from the national literature on the construction of an Irish cinema, many of whose films because of cultural constraints were produced and exhibited outside the country until very recently. Authors discussed include George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Liam O’Flaherty, Christy Brown, Edna O’Brien, James Joyce, and Brian Friel. The films analysed in this volume include THE QUIET MAN, THE INFORMER, MAJOR BARBARA, THE GIRL WITH GREEN EYES, MY LEFT FOOT, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, THE SNAPPER, and DANCING AT LUGHNASA. The introduction features a detailed discussion of the cultural and political questions raised by the promotion of forms of national identity by Ireland’s literary and cinematic establishments.

Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama

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ISBN 13 : 9780393960631
Total Pages : 577 pages
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Contemporary Irish Drama & Cultural Identity

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Publisher : Intellect Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
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Book Synopsis Contemporary Irish Drama & Cultural Identity by : Margaret Llewellyn-Jones

Download or read book Contemporary Irish Drama & Cultural Identity written by Margaret Llewellyn-Jones and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the works of Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness, Tom Murphy, and Thomas Kilroy, the author presents an introduction on the historical context of Irish culture, with particular attention being paid to the works performed in the 1990s.

Understanding John Fowles

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Total Pages : 208 pages
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MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY IRISH DRAMA.

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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A Bibliography of Modern Irish Drama 1899–1970

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349016276
Total Pages : 59 pages
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Masculinities and Manhood in Contemporary Irish Drama

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030840751
Total Pages : 295 pages
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Download or read book Masculinities and Manhood in Contemporary Irish Drama written by Cormac O'Brien and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the journey, in terms of both stasis and change, that masculinities and manhood have made in Irish drama, and by extension in the broader culture and society, from the 1960s to the present. Examining a diverse corpus of drama and theatre events, both mainstream and on the fringe, this study critically elaborates a seismic shift in Irish masculinities. This book argues, then, that Irish manhood has shifted from embodying and enacting post-colonial concerns of nationalism and national identity, to performing models of masculinity that are driven and moulded by the political and cultural practices of neoliberal capitalism. Masculinities and Manhood in Contemporary Irish Drama charts this shift through chapters on performing masculinity in plays set in both the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, and through several chapters that focus on Women’s and Queer drama. It thus takes its readers on a journey: a journey that begins with an overtly patriarchal, nationalist manhood that often made direct comment on the state of the nation, and ultimately arrives at several arguably regressive forms of globalised masculinity, which are couched in misaligned notions of individualism and free-choice and that frequently perceive themselves as being in crisis.

Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama

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Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393932430
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (324 download)

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Contemporary Irish Drama

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
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Book Synopsis Contemporary Irish Drama by : Anthony Roche

Download or read book Contemporary Irish Drama written by Anthony Roche and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By comparing the theatre of Samuel Beckett to more culturally specific Irish plays, the book establishes a greater international and theatrically experimental context for the field than has been recognised. Its three central chapters offer close and contextualised readings of the careers of Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and Thomas Kilroy across a span of more than four decades. The drama of Northern Ireland and its theatrical response to political violence receives sustained attention through a wide range of playwrights, including Frank McGuinness, Gary Mitchell, Christina Reid and Anne Devlin. A new chapter considers the work of such younger playwrights as Martin McDonagh and Marina Carr who emerged in the 1990s to probe the shortcomings of the 'Celtic Tiger' phenomenon.

A Century of Irish Drama

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253214195
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (141 download)

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Book Synopsis A Century of Irish Drama by : Stephen Watt

Download or read book A Century of Irish Drama written by Stephen Watt and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces a significant shift in 20th century Irish theatre from the largely national plays produced in Dublin to a more expansive international art form. Confirmed by the recent success outside of Ireland of the "third wave" of Irish playwrights writing in the 1990s, the new Irish drama has encouraged critics to reconsider both the early national theatre and the dramatic tradition it fostered. On the occasion of the centenary of the first professional production of the Irish Literary Theatre, the contributors to this volume investigate contemporary Irish drama's aesthetic features and socio-political commitments and re-read the plays produced earlier in the century. Although these essayists cover a wide range of topics, from the productions and objectives of the Abbey Theatre's first rivals to mid-century theatre festivals, to plays about the "Troubles" in the North, they all reassess the oppositions so commonplace in critical discussions of Irish drama: nationalism vs. internationalism, high vs. low culture, urban experience vs. rural or peasant life. A Century of Irish Drama includes essays on such figures as W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness, Christina Read, Martin McDonagh, and many more. Stephen Watt is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington, and author of Postmodern/Drama: Reading the Contemporary Stage, Joyce, O'Casey, and the Irish Popular Theatre, and essays on Irish and Irish-American culture. He has also written extensively on higher education, most recently Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education (with Cary Nelson). Eileen M. Morgan is a lecturer in English and Irish Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is currently working on Sean O'Faolain's biographies of De Valera and on Edna O'Brien's 1990s trilogy, and is preparing a book-length study on the influence of radio in Ireland. Shakir Mustafa is a Visiting Instructor in the English department at Indiana University. His work has appeared in such journals as New Hibernia Review and The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, and he is now translating Arabic short stories into English. Drama and Performance Studies--Timothy Wiles, general editor

The New Irish Studies

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108677169
Total Pages : 309 pages
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Download or read book The New Irish Studies written by Paige Reynolds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Irish Studies demonstrates how diverse critical approaches enable a richer understanding of contemporary Irish writing and culture. The early decades of the twenty-first century in Ireland and Northern Ireland have seen an astonishing rate of change, one that reflects the common understanding of the contemporary as a moment of acceleration and flux. This collection tracks how Irish writers have represented the peace and reconciliation process in Northern Ireland, the consequences of the Celtic Tiger economic boom in the Republic, the waning influence of Catholicism, the increased authority of diverse voices, and an altered relationship with Europe. The essays acknowledge the distinctiveness of contemporary Irish literature, reflecting a sense that the local can shed light on the global, even as they reach beyond the limited tropes that have long identified Irish literature. The collection suggests routes forward for Irish Studies, and unsettles presumptions about what constitutes an Irish classic.

Contemporary Irish Dramatists

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Total Pages : 288 pages
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Book Synopsis Contemporary Irish Dramatists by : Michael Etherton

Download or read book Contemporary Irish Dramatists written by Michael Etherton and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of contemporary drama in the 1980s into a depiction of a new Irish reality has contributed to a new Irish drama aesthetic, sparked originally by plays such as Hugh Leonard's Da and Stewart Parker's Spokesong. In this new book, Michael Etherton looks at the work of the most influential modern Irish dramatists to show how their work contributes to a radically different view of what constitutes 'Irish' and 'drama'.

Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Contemporary Irish Drama

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
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Book Synopsis Contemporary Irish Drama by : Anthony Roche

Download or read book Contemporary Irish Drama written by Anthony Roche and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Reader's Guide to Modern Irish Drama

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
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Download or read book A Reader's Guide to Modern Irish Drama written by Sanford Sternlicht and published by . This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Reader's Guide to Modern Irish Drama provides an introduction to one of the great dramatic and theatrical traditions of Western culture.