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Critical Moments

Author : Fintan O'Toole
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781904505037
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Critical Moments written by Fintan O'Toole and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2003 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few figures are more respected and quoted internationally than Fintan O'Toole, both as a controversial and provocative political commentator and theatre critic. This extensive collection brings together a wide range of his writings going back to 1980. It provides a privileged insight into the great moments of contemporary Irish theatre, marking the contributions of playwrights (Carr, Murphy, Friel, McGuinness), directors (Hynes, Byrne), actors (Hickey, McKenna), and designers (Vanek, Frawley). It also demonstrates his unsettling of the usual "canon," with his thoughtful arguments promoting certain playwrights who deserve to up be there with Ireland's best, including Antoine O'Flatharta, Paul Mercier, Dermot Bolger, and David Byrne.

Brian Friel in Conversation

Author : Brian Friel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472067107
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Brian Friel in Conversation written by Brian Friel and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections by the author of Dancing at Lughnasa on Irish writers, the theater, nationalism, Catholicism, and his childhood

Ireland’s Gramophones

Author : Zan Cammack
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1949979776
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Ireland’s Gramophones written by Zan Cammack and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because gramophonic technology grew up alongside Ireland’s progressively more outspoken and violent struggles for political autonomy and national stability, Irish Modernism inherently links the gramophone to representations of these dramatic cultural upheavals. Many key works of Irish literary modernism—like those by James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Sean O’Casey—depend upon the gramophone for their ability to record Irish cultural traumas both symbolically and literally during one of the country’s most fraught developmental eras. In each work the gramophone testifies of its own complexity as a physical object and its multiform value in the artistic development of textual material. In each work, too, the object seems virtually self-placed—less an aesthetic device than a “thing” belonging primordially to the text. The machine is also often an agent and counterpart to literary characters. Thus, the gramophone points to a deeper connection between object and culture than we perceive if we consider it as only an image, enhancement, or instrument. This book examines the gramophone as an object that refuses to remain in the background of scenes in which it appears, forcing us to confront its mnemonic heritage during a period of Irish history burdened with political and cultural turbulence.

About Friel

Author : Tony Coult
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571282660
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book About Friel written by Tony Coult and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series contains what no other study guides can offer - extensive first-hand interviews with the playwrights and their closest collaborators on all of their major work, put together by top academics especially for the modern student market. As well as invaluable synopses, biographical essays and chronologies, these guides allow the student much closer to the playwright than ever before! In About Friel, teacher and playwright Tony Coult has selected an extensive and stimulating range of documents and interview material that explores Friel's life, work and the experiences of his collaborators and fellow artists who put that work on stage, including Patrick Mason, Connall Morrison, Joe Dowling and actors Catherine Byrne and Mark Lambert. If you want to read just one book on Brian Friel and the titanic power of his work, this is it.

Brian Friel

Author : Scott Boltwood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350308749
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Brian Friel written by Scott Boltwood and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential guide provides a deeply informed survey of the criticism of all the plays and major stories authored by Brian Friel. Scott Boltwood introduces readers to the key themes that have been used to characterise Friel's entire career, moving chronologically from his early work as a successful short story writer to the present day. This is an essential text for dedicated modules or courses on Modern or Contemporary British and Irish drama offered as part of English literature degrees, or for the literature and culture modules of undergraduate and postgraduate Irish studies degrees. In addition, this book is an ideal companion for A-level students reading Friel's plays, or anyone with an interest in this complex writer's career.

Acting Between the Lines

Author : Marilynn J. Richtarik
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813210759
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Acting Between the Lines written by Marilynn J. Richtarik and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acting Between the Lines is the first full-length study of Northern Ireland's Field Day Theatre Company.

Islands

Author : Stephen A. Royle
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780234015
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Islands written by Stephen A. Royle and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Charles Darwin’s enlightening voyage to the Galapagos Islands to moat-encased prisons incarcerating the world’s deadliest prisoners, islands have been sites of immense scientific, political, and creative importance. An inspiration for artists and writers, they can be lively centers of holiday revelry or remote, mysterious spots; places of escape or of exile and imprisonment. In this cultural and scientific history of these alluring, isolated territories, Stephen A. Royle describes the great variety of islands, their economies, and the animals, plants, and people who thrive on them. Royle shows that despite the view of some islands as earthly paradises, they are often beset by severe limitations in both resources and opportunities. Detailing the population loss many islands have faced in recent years, he considers how islanders have developed their homes into tourist destinations in order to combat economic instability. He also explores their exotic, otherworldly beauty and the ways they have provided both refuge and inspiration for artists, such as Paul Gauguin in Tahiti and George Orwell on the Scottish island of Jura. Filled with illustrations, Islands is a compelling and comprehensive survey of the geographical and cultural aspects of island life.

Brian Friel

Author : William Kerwin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815324782
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Brian Friel written by William Kerwin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997

Brian Friel

Author : A. Roche
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230305539
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Brian Friel written by A. Roche and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friel is recognised as Ireland's leading playwright and due to the ability of plays like Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa to translate into other cultures he has made a major impact on world theatre. This study draws on the Friel Archive to deepen our understanding of how his plays were developed.

The Achievement of Brian Friel

Author : Alan J. Peacock
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780861403493
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Achievement of Brian Friel written by Alan J. Peacock and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1993 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reception of Brian Friel's recent Dancing at Lughnasa confirms his status as Ireland's leading dramatist. The body of work that he has produced is outstanding in its breadth of sympathy and interest, its dramaturgical invention and its wide cultural and intellectual purview. At one level, it may be seen as a continuous examination of Irish culture and politics, committed and analytical, but not sectionally propagandist. His outlook in his drama, however, is not amenable to simplistic categorization, political or otherwise. As this volume demonstrates, linguistically, allusively, and in terms of its broad transcultural analogising, his work ranges widely. He utilises ideas and terminologies drawn from various cultural sources and academic disciplines in a way that exemplifies his central, insistent concern with the phenomenon of language and implications. As an Irish dramatist, however, he makes Irish social, political and, notably, family life his focus and builds upon a recognised tradition of twentieth century Irish play-writing. This book addresses the variety and complexity of Friel's drama by bringing to bear a range of academic and other professional and creative approaches in order to highlight particular aspects of his work and thought. Hence, contributors include a playwright, poet, theatre-producer, historian and various specialists in relevant literatures. In this way, the book suggests the intellectual richness, humanity, and protean skill and invention of the work.

Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry

Author : Brian Friel
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781904505174
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry written by Brian Friel and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Irish playwright, Brian Friel

Brian Friel

Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476627819
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Brian Friel written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-02-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying the life, work and accolades of Irish playwright Brian Friel, this literary companion investigates his personal and professional relationships and his literary topics and themes, such as belonging, violence, patriarchy and hypocrisy. Character summaries describe his most significant figures, particularly St. Columba, the victims of Derry's Bloody Sunday, and Hugh O'Neill, the Lord of Tyrone. Entries analyze Friel's style in detail, from his column in the Irish Times and his short fiction in the New Yorker to his most recent plays, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Translations, and Dancing at Lughnasa.

Geography Of Islands

Author : Stephen A. Royle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113535877X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Geography Of Islands written by Stephen A. Royle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Islands have always fascinated people. They often seem remote and mysterious, set between the continents on which most people live. Indeed, many people choose islands for their perfect holiday idyll. In practice, however, the everyday social and economic reality is often very different. A Geography of Islands firstly examines the differing ways islands are formed. Despite the uniqueness of such islands in terms of shape, size, flora and fauna, and also their economic and developmental profiles, they all share certain characteristics and constraints imposed by their insularity. These present islands everywhere with a range of common problems. A Geography of Islands considers how their small scale, isolation, peripherality and often a lack of resources, has affected islands, in the present day and their past. It considers and discusses population issues, communications and services, island politics and new ways of making a living, especially tourism, found within contemporary island geography. A Geography of Islands gives a comprehensive survey of ‘islandness’ and its defining features. Stephen A. Royle has visited and studied 320 islands in 50 countries in all the world’s oceans. It is full of up-to-date global case studies, from Okinawa to Inishbofin, and Hawaii to Crete. In the final chapter, all the themes are brought together in a case study of the Atlantic island of St Helena. It is well illustrated with the author’s own photographs and maps. This book will appeal to those studying islands as well as those with an interest in the topic, particularly those engaged in dealing with small island economies.

The Island of the White Cow

Author : Deborah Tall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689707223
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book The Island of the White Cow written by Deborah Tall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1987-09-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, The Island of the White Cow: Memories of an Irish Island is Deborah Tall's experiences while living on an island off the coast of Ireland and portrays the way of life of the islanders. The author, a poet and teacher of creative writing, lived on a rugged and sparsely inhabited island off the west coast of Ireland for five years, from 1972 to 1977. The Island of the White Cow: Memories of an Irish Island is the moving account of her experiences there.

Islands Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islands Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama

Author : Richard Rankin Russell
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815652348
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama written by Richard Rankin Russell and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel’s Drama shows how the leading Irish playwright explores a series of dynamic physical and intellectual environments, charting the impact of modernity on rural culture and on the imagined communities he strives to create between readers, and script, actors and audience.

Byron and the Sea-Green Isle

Author : Nicholas Gayle
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527514358
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Byron and the Sea-Green Isle written by Nicholas Gayle and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Byron’s last complete long poem, the comparatively neglected The Island, is the first to devote a whole book to the examination, contextualization and motivation of both the poetry and its poet. It is much more than just a monograph, however; aside from biographical considerations, it illumines aspects of study that embrace feminism, racial politics and social considerations in relation to Polynesian island society, all of which are contrasted with the loose anarchy of an eighteenth century group of British mutineers. Two historical contexts – the infamous 1789 mutiny on the Bounty and Byron’s life in the year that led up to the poem’s composition – serve as an extended prelude to a deep analysis of the major symbols and characters in the poem, while its main chapters range beyond The Island, conducting a literary conversation with Shakespeare, Pope, 18th-century writers of memoirs and nautical sea history, classical authors and even Chinese poets, as well as other Romantic poets. Consideration is given to aspects of racial and feminist theory in relation to the poem’s extraordinary central female character; in particular there is a focus on her promotion of the poem’s happy ending, one that is quite unique in Byron’s oeuvre. The Appendix contains the first-ever published transcript of the holograph of the poem, allowing readers to appreciate Byron’s idiosyncratic and expressive punctuation—as well as his first thoughts before editing.