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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Helen Lojek |
| ISBN: | 9780230115231 0230115233 |
| OCLC Number: | 711049361 |
| Description: | x, 181 p. ; cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Mapping the territory : Brian Friel's Translations (1980) -- Picturing a changing landscape : Conor McPherson's The weir (1997) -- Travelling in place : Marina Carr's By the bog of cats? (1998) -- Exploring interiors : Frank McGuinness's Gates of gold (2002) -- Conclusion. |
| Responsibility: | Helen Heusner Lojek. |
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<p>"Though Lojek's focus is narrow, this systematic analysis can be extended to a range of plays in an increasingly global world of contemporary drama. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers." - "CHOICE" <br>"The subject of space is at the cutting edge of critical discourse on contemporary Irish drama and theatre. Lojek's deeply researched, fluently written, and probing study puts her at the forefront of such investigations. Instead of a fixed, immutable Ireland, she uncovers in four canonical contemporary plays a series of multiple, fluid, and accommodating spaces in both the public and private spheres." - Anthony Roche, author of "Contemporary Irish Drama" and "Brian Friel: Theatre and Politics" <br>"With an astute understanding of the territory of Irish drama, Lojek opens up the discussion of theatrical space, from intimate interiors to public places, in an intelligent and readable book that illuminates the ways in which Brian Friel, Conor McPherson, Marina Carr, and Frank McGuinness create 'a country of the mind'. By concentrating on four plays, this book presents an in-depth, local argument with a national reach, decoding space as both a metaphor and a reality on the Irish stage." - Emilie Pine, author of "The Politics of Irish Memory: Performing Remembrance in Contemporary Irish Culture" and assistant editor of the "Irish University Review" <br>"A timely and significant study. Each of the four main chapters explores one play in depth under the polyvalent rubric of 'space', literal and metaphoric, theatrical and extra-theatrical, landscape, and mimesis. This rich and diverse term here raises issues equally rich and varied, among them history and identity, home and belonging, gender and social status, and Lojek is alive both to all that's going on in each text and outside of it. By focusing on a central dynamic her selection of plays provides in little a masterly examination of contemporary Irish dr Read more...
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- English drama -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
- English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Setting (Literature)
- Place (Philosophy) in literature.
- Ireland -- In literature.
- PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting
- PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama
- By the bog of cats.
- Gates of gold.
- Translations.
- The weir.
- Raum (Motiv)
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