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Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama / Richard Rankin Russell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Russell, Richard Rankin.
- Series:
- Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
- Irish Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postmodernism (Literature)--Ireland.
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- Place (Philosophy) in literature.
- Communities in literature.
- Friel, Brian--Criticism and interpretation.
- Friel, Brian.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Mediascape, harvest, crash: Philadelphia, here I come! and Gar O'Donnell's modernity
- "Placing the dead of the troubles": the imagined ghostly community of the freedom of the city
- Faith healer: from the geopathic shudder to the embrace of ritualized, performative place
- Translations: lamenting and accepting modernity
- Dancing at Lughnasa: placing and recreating memory.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780815652342
- 0815652348
- OCLC:
- 872122201
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