Brian Friel S Post Colonial Drama

Author : F. C. McGrath
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-12-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0815628137

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Brian Friel's (Post) Colonial Drama by F. C. McGrath Pdf

Brian Friel is Ireland's most important living playwright, and this book places him in the new canon of postcolonial writers. Drawing on the theory and techniques of the major postcolonial critics, F. C. McGrath offers fresh interpretations of Friel's texts and of his place in the tradition of linguistic idealism in Irish literature. This idealism has dominated Ireland's still incomplete emergence from its colonial past. It appeals to Irish writers like Friel who, following in a line from Yeats, Synge, and O'Casey, challenge British culture with antirealistic, antimirnetic devices to create alternative worlds, histories, and new identities to escape stereotypes imposed by the colonizers. Friel grew up in Northern Ireland's Catholic minority and now lives in the Irish Republic. McGrath maintains that all Friel's work is marked by colonial and postcolonial structures. Like his predecessor Wilde, Friel mixes lies, facts, memories, and individual perception to create new myths and elevates blarney to a realm of aesthetic and philosophical distinction. An important, accessible, scholarly introduction, this book illustrates how Friel playfully subverts the English language and transcends British influence. Friel's reality is constructed from personal fiction, and it is his liberating response to oppression.

Author : Helen Gilbert,Joanne Tompkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134877003

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Post-Colonial Drama by Helen Gilbert,Joanne Tompkins Pdf

Post-Colonial Drama is the first full-length study to address the ways in which performance has been instrumental in resisting the continuing effects of imperialism. It brings to bear the latest theoretical approaches from post-colonial and performance studies to a range of plays from Australia, Africa, Canada, New Zealand, the Caribbean and other former colonial regions. Some of the major topics discussed in Post-Colonial Drama include: * the interactions of post-colonial and performance theories * the post-colonial re-stagings of language and history * the specific enactments of ritual and carnival * the theatrical citations of the post-colonial body Post-Colonial Drama combines a rich intersection of theoretical approaches with close attention to a wide range of performance texts.

Author : David Krasner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405157582

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A History of Modern Drama, Volume II by David Krasner Pdf

A History of Modern Drama: Volume II explores a remarkable breadth of topics and analytical approaches to the dramatic works, authors, and transitional events and movements that shaped world drama from 1960 through to the dawn of the new millennium. Features detailed analyses of plays and playwrights, examining the influence of a wide range of writers, from mainstream icons such as Harold Pinter and Edward Albee, to more unorthodox works by Peter Weiss and Sarah Kane Provides global coverage of both English and non-English dramas – including works from Africa and Asia to the Middle East Considers the influence of art, music, literature, architecture, society, politics, culture, and philosophy on the formation of postmodern dramatic literature Combines wide-ranging topics with original theories, international perspective, and philosophical and cultural context Completes a comprehensive two-part work examining modern world drama, and alongside A History of Modern Drama: Volume I, offers readers complete coverage of a full century in the evolution of global dramatic literature.

Author : Nobel-Augusto Perdu Honeyman
Publisher : Universidad Almería
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Odisea nº 12: Revista de estudios ingleses by Nobel-Augusto Perdu Honeyman Pdf

Revista de Estudios Ingleses es un anuario dirigido y gestionado por miembros del Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana de la Universidad de Almería con el propósito de ofrecer un foro de intercambio de producción científica en campos del conocimiento tan diversos como la lengua inglesa, literatura en lengua inglesa, didáctica del inglés, traducción, inglés para fines específicos y otros igualmente vinculados a los estudios ingleses.

Author : Helen Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136218170

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Postcolonial Plays by Helen Gilbert Pdf

This collection of contemporary postcolonial plays demonstrates the extraordinary vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre. This anthology encompasses both internationally admired 'classics' and previously unpublished texts, all dealing with imperialism and its aftermath. It includes work from Canada, the Carribean, South and West Africa, Southeast Asia, India, New Zealand and Australia. A general introduction outlines major themes in postcolonial plays. Introductions to individual plays include information on authors as well as overviews of cultural contexts, major ideas and performance history. Dramaturgical techniques in the plays draw on Western theatre as well as local performance traditions and include agit-prop dialogue, musical routines, storytelling, ritual incantation, epic narration, dance, multimedia presentation and puppetry. The plays dramatize diverse issues, such as: *globalization * political corruption * race and class relations *slavery *gender and sexuality *media representation *nationalism

Author : Helen Gilbert,Joanne Tompkins
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0415090237

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Post-colonial Drama by Helen Gilbert,Joanne Tompkins Pdf

Post-Colonial Drama is the first full-length study to address the ways in which performance has been instrumental in resisting the continuing effects of imperialism. It brings to bear the latest theoretical approaches from post-colonial and performance studies to a range of plays from Australia, Africa, Canada, New Zealand, the Caribbean and other former colonial regions. Some of the major topics discussed in Post-Colonial Drama include: * the interactions of post-colonial and performance theories * the post-colonial re-stagings of language and history * the specific enactments of ritual and carnival * the theatrical citations of the post-colonial body Post-Colonial Drama combines a rich intersection of theoretical approaches with close attention to a wide range of performance texts.

Author : Helen Gilbert
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Commonwealth countries
ISBN : 0415164494

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Postcolonial Plays by Helen Gilbert Pdf

Author : Gaby Frey
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783772055348

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Private Goes Public: Self-Narrativisation in Brian Friel's Plays by Gaby Frey Pdf

In Brian Friel's writing, the distinction between public and private is closely linked to the concepts of home, family, identity and truth. This study examines the characters' excessive introspection and their deep-seated need to disclose their most intimate knowledge and private truths to define who they are and, thus, to oppose dominant discourse or avoid heteronomy. This study begins by investigating how a number of Anglo-Irish writers publicised their characters' private versions of truth thereby illustrating what they perceived to be the space of 'Irishness'. The book then focuses on Friel's techniques of sharing his character's private views to demonstrate how he adopted and adapted these practices in his own oeuvre. As the characters' superficial inarticulateness and their vivid inner selves are repeatedly juxtaposed in Friel's texts, his oeuvre, quintessentially, displays a great unease with the concepts of communication and absolute truth.

Author : Brian Crow,Chris Banfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996-03-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 052156722X

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An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theatre by Brian Crow,Chris Banfield Pdf

In this book Brian Crow and Chris Banfield provide an introduction to post-colonial theatre by concentrating on the work of major dramatists from the Third World and subordinated cultures in the first world. Crow and Banfield consider the plays of such writers as Wole Soyinka and Athol Fugard and his collaborators from Africa; Derek Walcott from the West Indies; August Wilson and Jack Davis, who write from and about the experience of Black communities in the USA and Australia respectively; and Badal Sircar and Girish Karnad from India. Although these dramatists reflect diverse cultures and histories, they share the common condition of cultural subjection or oppression, which has shaped their theatres. Each chapter contains an informative list of primary source material and further reading about the dramatists. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of theatre and cultural history.

Author : Mary Ketsin
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1590335902

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Irish Literature by Mary Ketsin Pdf

Irish literature's roots have been traced to the 7th-9th century. This is a rich and hardy literature starting with descriptions of the brave deeds of kings, saints and other heroes. These were followed by generous veins of religious, historical, genealogical, scientific and other works. The development of prose, poetry and drama raced along with the times. Modern, well-known Irish writers include: William Yeats, James Joyce, Sean Casey, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, John Synge and Samuel Beckett.

Author : د. محمد علي الخولي
Publisher : دار الفلاح للنشر والتوزيع‎
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789957552060

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Brian Friel and the Field Day Theatre by د. محمد علي الخولي Pdf

This book deals with the field day theatre and what Brian Friel has presented to it in various aspects.

Author : John R. Strachan,Alison O'Malley-Younger
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039118811

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Ireland by John R. Strachan,Alison O'Malley-Younger Pdf

The essays in this collection all revolve around the notion of change in Ireland, whether by revolution or by evolution. Developments in the shared histories of Ireland and Great Britain are an important theme throughout the book. The volume begins by examining two remarkable Irishmen on the make in Georgian London: the boxing historian Pierce Egan and the extraordinary Charles Macklin, eighteenth-century actor, playwright and manslaughterer. The focus then moves to aspects of Hibernian influence and the presence of the Irish Diaspora in Great Britain from the medieval period up to the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century celebrations of St Patrick's Day in Manchester. The book also considers the very different attitudes to the British Empire evident in the career of the 1916 rebel Sir Roger Casement and the Victorian philologist and colonial servant Whitley Stokes. Further essays look at writings by Scottish Marxists on the state of Ireland in the 1920s and the pronouncements on the Troubles by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. The book also examines change in the culture of the island of Ireland, from the development of the Irish historical novel in the nineteenth century, to ecology in contemporary Irish women's poetry, to the present state of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. Contemporary Irish authors examined include Roddy Doyle, Joseph O'Connor and Martin McDonagh.

Author : Matthew John Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015041111850

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Drama North and South by Matthew John Martin Pdf

Author : William Kerwin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0815324782

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Brian Friel by William Kerwin Pdf

First published in 1997

Author : Richard Rankin Russell
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815655060

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Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama by Richard Rankin Russell Pdf

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 strove to create between readers, and script, actors and audience.