Hegemony and fantasy in Irish drama, 1899-1949 / Paul Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Paul, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--Irish authors.

English drama--20th century--History and criticism.

Ideology in literature.

Nationalism in literature.

Social classes in literature.

Fantasy in literature.

Ireland--In literature.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

ix, 266 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

Now that Irish drama studies has a sound platform in terms of historicization, particularly regarding the relationship between drama, state formation and national identity, the time is ripe to engage in research which questions that relationship, specifically in terms of the disjunction between nation, class and gender in the Irish cultural context. In this sense Hegemony and Fantasy is a deliberate intervention rather than a general historicization, in terms of an engagement with Irish drama primarily from the perspectives of class and gender, rather than that of nation or national identity, which has formed the superstructure of many debates in Irish drama studies for many years. In parallel with the aim of shifting the methodological paradigm of Irish drama studies, Hegemony and Fantasy attempts to reaccentuate the focus on the Irish dramatic canon by providing a new engagement with canonical drama, as well as engaging with non-canonical drama especially in the under-researched period 1926-1949.

Contents:

Part I Peasant Quality and the National Quintessence

1 Dream of the Noble and the Beggarman 19

2 To Live the Things that I before Imagined 42

3 Whatever Rule We may have, We'll always have Our Tramps and Paupers 66

4 That Ireland which We Dreamed Of 91

Part II The Woman and its Vicissitudes

5 What Kind of a Living Woman is It that You are at All? 117

6 That a Black Twisty Divil could be Hiding under Such Comeliness 143

7 Sure if I was a Good Wife to Him - that mightn't be an Easy Job! 168

8 Woman Gives to the State 193.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-260) and index.

ISBN:

9780230536838

0230536832

OCLC:

182737260

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