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Gender and modern Irish drama / Susan Cannon Harris

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Drama and performance studies ; v. 14 | EBSCOhost eBook CollectionPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2002Description: xi, 307 pISBN:
  • 0253109736
  • 9780253109736
  • 0253341175
  • 9780253341174
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: 0253341175. | 9780253341174. | 0253341175 | Erscheint auch als: Gender and modern Irish drama. Druck-Ausgabe Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2002DDC classification:
  • 822/.91209352042/09417
  • 822.9120935204209417
LOC classification:
  • PR8795.W65
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: bodies and blood -- Body and soul: Yeats, the Famine, and the two Cathleens -- Under siege: blood, borders, and the body politic -- Excess of love: Padraig Pearse and the erotics of sacrifice -- The body of truth: sensationalism and sacrifice in Sean O'Casey's Dublin trilogy -- Misbirth of a nation: Yeats and the Irish Free State
Summary: Gender and Modern Irish Drama argues that the representations of sacrificial violence central to the work of the Abbey playwrights are intimately linked with constructions of gender and sexuality. Susan Cannon Harris goes beyond an examination of the relationship between Irish national drama and Irish nationalist politics to the larger question of the way national identity and gender identity are constructed through each other. Radically redefining the context in which the Abbey plays were performed, HarrSummary: Introduction: bodies and blood -- Body and soul: Yeats, the Famine, and the two Cathleens -- Under siege: blood, borders, and the body politic -- Excess of love: Padraig Pearse and the erotics of sacrifice -- The body of truth: sensationalism and sacrifice in Sean O'Casey's Dublin trilogy -- Misbirth of a nation: Yeats and the Irish Free State. - Gender and Modern Irish Drama argues that the representations of sacrificial violence central to the work of the Abbey playwrights are intimately linked with constructions of gender and sexuality. Susan Cannon Harris goes beyond an examination of the relationship between Irish national drama and Irish nationalist politics to the larger question of the way national identity and gender identity are constructed through each other. Radically redefining the context in which the Abbey plays were performed, HarrPPN: PPN: 086150812Package identifier: Produktsigel: GBV-4-CommColl | ZDB-4-EBA | ZDB-4-NLEBK | ZDB-1-NEL
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