Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama [electronic resource] / Richard Rankin Russell.

Author/Creator:

Russell, Richard Rankin.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2013.

Series:

Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Irish Studies

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (336 p.)

Subjects:

Postmodernism (Literature) -- Ireland.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Communities in literature.
Friel, Brian -- Criticism and interpretation.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Contents:

Mediascape, harvest, crash: Philadelphia, here I come! and Gar O'Donnell's modernity
"Placing the dead of the troubles": the imagined ghostly community of the freedom of the city
Faith healer: from the geopathic shudder to the embrace of ritualized, performative place
Translations: lamenting and accepting modernity
Dancing at Lughnasa: placing and recreating memory.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8156-5234-8

OCLC:

872122201

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