Small Stories of a Gentle Island
Author : Ruth Loomis
Publisher : Ladysmith, B.C. : Reflections
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Pylades Island (B.C.)
ISBN : 9780969257004
Author : Ruth Loomis
Publisher : Ladysmith, B.C. : Reflections
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Pylades Island (B.C.)
ISBN : 9780969257004
Author : Brian Friel
Publisher :
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 30,11 MB
Release : 1993
Category : English drama
ISBN : 9781852351106
Author : Fintan O'Toole
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 18,30 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781904505037
Few figures are more respected and quoted internationally than Fintan O'Toole, both as a controversial and provocative political commentator and theatre critic. This extensive collection brings together a wide range of his writings going back to 1980. It provides a privileged insight into the great moments of contemporary Irish theatre, marking the contributions of playwrights (Carr, Murphy, Friel, McGuinness), directors (Hynes, Byrne), actors (Hickey, McKenna), and designers (Vanek, Frawley). It also demonstrates his unsettling of the usual "canon," with his thoughtful arguments promoting certain playwrights who deserve to up be there with Ireland's best, including Antoine O'Flatharta, Paul Mercier, Dermot Bolger, and David Byrne.
Author : Brian Friel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472067107
Reflections by the author of Dancing at Lughnasa on Irish writers, the theater, nationalism, Catholicism, and his childhood
Author : Zan Cammack
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1949979776
Because gramophonic technology grew up alongside Ireland’s progressively more outspoken and violent struggles for political autonomy and national stability, Irish Modernism inherently links the gramophone to representations of these dramatic cultural upheavals. Many key works of Irish literary modernism—like those by James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Sean O’Casey—depend upon the gramophone for their ability to record Irish cultural traumas both symbolically and literally during one of the country’s most fraught developmental eras. In each work the gramophone testifies of its own complexity as a physical object and its multiform value in the artistic development of textual material. In each work, too, the object seems virtually self-placed—less an aesthetic device than a “thing” belonging primordially to the text. The machine is also often an agent and counterpart to literary characters. Thus, the gramophone points to a deeper connection between object and culture than we perceive if we consider it as only an image, enhancement, or instrument. This book examines the gramophone as an object that refuses to remain in the background of scenes in which it appears, forcing us to confront its mnemonic heritage during a period of Irish history burdened with political and cultural turbulence.
Author : Tony Coult
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 17,66 MB
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0571282660
This series contains what no other study guides can offer - extensive first-hand interviews with the playwrights and their closest collaborators on all of their major work, put together by top academics especially for the modern student market. As well as invaluable synopses, biographical essays and chronologies, these guides allow the student much closer to the playwright than ever before! In About Friel, teacher and playwright Tony Coult has selected an extensive and stimulating range of documents and interview material that explores Friel's life, work and the experiences of his collaborators and fellow artists who put that work on stage, including Patrick Mason, Connall Morrison, Joe Dowling and actors Catherine Byrne and Mark Lambert. If you want to read just one book on Brian Friel and the titanic power of his work, this is it.
Author : Scott Boltwood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,49 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 : Deborah Tall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 1987-09-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0689707223
From Simon & Schuster, The Island of the White Cow: Memories of an Irish Island is Deborah Tall's experiences while living on an island off the coast of Ireland and portrays the way of life of the islanders. The author, a poet and teacher of creative writing, lived on a rugged and sparsely inhabited island off the west coast of Ireland for five years, from 1972 to 1977. The Island of the White Cow: Memories of an Irish Island is the moving account of her experiences there.
Author : Alan J. Peacock
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780861403493
The reception of Brian Friel's recent Dancing at Lughnasa confirms his status as Ireland's leading dramatist. The body of work that he has produced is outstanding in its breadth of sympathy and interest, its dramaturgical invention and its wide cultural and intellectual purview. At one level, it may be seen as a continuous examination of Irish culture and politics, committed and analytical, but not sectionally propagandist. His outlook in his drama, however, is not amenable to simplistic categorization, political or otherwise. As this volume demonstrates, linguistically, allusively, and in terms of its broad transcultural analogising, his work ranges widely. He utilises ideas and terminologies drawn from various cultural sources and academic disciplines in a way that exemplifies his central, insistent concern with the phenomenon of language and implications. As an Irish dramatist, however, he makes Irish social, political and, notably, family life his focus and builds upon a recognised tradition of twentieth century Irish play-writing. This book addresses the variety and complexity of Friel's drama by bringing to bear a range of academic and other professional and creative approaches in order to highlight particular aspects of his work and thought. Hence, contributors include a playwright, poet, theatre-producer, historian and various specialists in relevant literatures. In this way, the book suggests the intellectual richness, humanity, and protean skill and invention of the work.
Author : Marilynn J. Richtarik
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780813210759
Acting Between the Lines is the first full-length study of Northern Ireland's Field Day Theatre Company.