Author : Richard Rankin Russell
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 41,28 MB
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815655061
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.
Author : Richard Rankin Russell
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815652348
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.
Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476665745
Surveying the life, work and accolades of Irish playwright Brian Friel, this literary companion investigates his personal and professional relationships and his literary topics and themes, such as belonging, violence, patriarchy and hypocrisy. Character summaries describe his most significant figures, particularly St. Columba, the victims of Derry's Bloody Sunday, and Hugh O'Neill, the Lord of Tyrone. Entries analyze Friel's style in detail, from his column in the Irish Times and his short fiction in the New Yorker to his most recent plays, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Translations, and Dancing at Lughnasa.
Author : Brian Friel
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573618710
The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, making the first Ordnance Survey. For the purposes of cartography, the local Gaelic place names have to be recorded and rendered into English. In examining the effects of this operation on the lives of a small group, Brian Friel skillfully reveals the far-reaching personal and cultural effects of an action which is at first sight purely administrative.
Author : Scott Boltwood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 38,14 MB
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137523069
This essential guide provides a deeply informed survey of the criticism of all the plays and major stories authored by Brian Friel. Scott Boltwood introduces readers to the key themes that have been used to characterise Friel's entire career, moving chronologically from his early work as a successful short story writer to the present day. This is an essential text for dedicated modules or courses on Modern or Contemporary British and Irish drama offered as part of English literature degrees, or for the literature and culture modules of undergraduate and postgraduate Irish studies degrees. In addition, this book is an ideal companion for A-level students reading Friel's plays, or anyone with an interest in this complex writer's career.
Author : Lionel Pilkington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 21,21 MB
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1134914652
This major new study presents a political and cultural history of some of Ireland's key national theatre projects from the 1890s to the 1990s. Impressively wide-ranging in coverage, Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Cultivating the People includes discussions on: *the politics of the Irish literary movement at the Abbey Theatre before and after political independence; *the role of a state-sponsored theatre for the post-1922 unionist government in Northern Ireland; *the convulsive effects of the Northern Ireland conflict on Irish theatre. Lionel Pilkington draws on a combination of archival research and critical readings of individual plays, covering works by J. M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, Lennox Robinson, T. C. Murray, George Shiels, Brian Friel, and Frank McGuinness. In its insistence on the details of history, this is a book important to anyone interested in Irish culture and politics in the twentieth century.
Author : Brian Friel
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 1993
Category : English drama
ISBN :
Author : Brian Friel
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 23,15 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN :
Author : James C. Scott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 11,98 MB
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300252986
“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University
Author : Dr. Gaby Frey
Publisher :
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 2015-10-28
Category :
ISBN : 9783772085345
