European lyric folkdrama : a definition / Robert M. Farrington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farrington, Robert M., 1939-

Series:

American university studies. Theatre arts ; Series XXVI, v. 30.

American university studies. Series XXVI, Theatre arts ; vol. 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European drama--19th century--History and criticism.

European drama.

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

Myth in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 p.)

Other Title:

European lyric folk drama

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Robert M. Farrington sheds new light on nine folk-inspired rural dramas produced by three European playwrights between 1885 and 1936: Spain's Federico Garcia Lorca, Ireland's John Millington Synge, and Germany's Gerhart Hauptmann. Through an analysis of the linguistic conventions of the three dramatists and by tying their plays' language to a myth/ritual content, this book defines the works as representative of a sub-genre, that is, lyric folkdrama. A sound/meaning nexus is identified as an essential ingredient of folkdrama. To clarify this relationship between sound and meaning and to establish a theoretical basis for the linguistic analysis, the study draws from works on myth, ritual, drama, and poetic language by Aristotle, Richard Wagner, Mircea Eliade, and Northrop Frye, as well as from critical studies by the structuralists Roman Jakobson and Claude L vi-Strauss.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-166) and index.

ISBN:

0-8204-5146-0

OCLC:

191928083