J. M. Synge : nature, politics, modernism / Sean Hewitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hewitt, Sean, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909.

Synge, J. M. (John Millington).

Themes, motives.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press 2021

Summary:

A thorough re-assessment of one of Ireland's major playwrights, J.M. Synge (1871-1909). Using much previously-undiscussed archival material, the book takes each of Synge's plays and prose works, tracing his journey from an early Romanticism to a later, more combative modernism.

Contents:

Halftitle page List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. 'An Initiated Mystic': Occultism and Modernization in The Aran Islands 2. The Wicklow Essays Science, Nature, and the Re-enchanted World 3. 'A Black Knot': Temporalities in the One-act Plays 4. Dialectics, Irony, and The Well of the Saints 5. 'From the Congested Districts': The Crow and the Golf Ball 6. Degeneration, Eugenics, and The Playboy of the Western World Conclusion

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-189479-6

0-19-260666-2

0-19-260667-0