Theatre and Residual Culture J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland / by Christopher Collins.
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Collins, Christopher. (författare)
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SpringerLink (Online service)
- ISBN 9781349948727
- Publicerad: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : 2016
- Engelska XII, 301 p.
- Relaterad länk:
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http://dx.doi.org/10... (Table of Contents / Abstracts)
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Emergence of the Playwright -- 3. Flagrant Heathens -- 4. A Christless Creed -- 5. The Cries of Pagan Desperation -- 6. A Sort of Saint -- 7. Christy and the Changeling -- 8. Conclusion. .
- This book considers the cultural residue from pre-Christian Ireland in Synge’s plays and performances. By dramatising a residual culture in front of a predominantly modern and political Irish Catholic middle class audience, the book argues that Synge attempted to offer an alternative understanding of what it meant to be “modern” at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book draws extensively on Synge’s archive to demonstrate how pre-Christian residual culture informed not just how he wrote and staged pre-Christian beliefs, but also how he thought about an older, almost forgotten culture that Catholic Ireland desperately wanted to forget. Each of Synge’s plays is considered in an individual chapter, and they identify how Synge’s dramaturgy was informed by pre-Christian beliefs of animism, pantheism, folklore, superstition and magical ritual.
Ämnesord
- Catholic Church. (LCSH)
- Religion and sociology. (LCSH)
- Culture -- Study and teaching. (LCSH)
- Theater -- History. (LCSH)
- Great Britain -- History. (LCSH)
- Literature, Modern -- 20th century. (LCSH)
- Cultural and Media Studies.
- Theatre History.
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- Religion and Society.
- Catholicism.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
Klassifikation
- PN2100-PN2193 (LCC)
- PER011020 (ämneskategori)
- 792.09 (DDC)
- Ikb (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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