Gender and modern Irish drama [[electronic resource] /] / Susan Cannon Harris
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| Autore: |
Harris Susan C (Susan Cannon), <1969->
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| Titolo: |
Gender and modern Irish drama [[electronic resource] /] / Susan Cannon Harris
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| Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 822/.91209352042/09417 |
| Soggetto topico: | English drama - Irish authors - History and criticism |
| Women and literature - Ireland - History - 20th century | |
| Feminism and literature - Ireland - History - 20th century | |
| English drama - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Human body in literature | |
| Sex role in literature | |
| Women in literature | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Ireland In literature |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-295) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Bodies and Blood 1 -- 1. Body and Soul: Yeats, the Famine, and the Two Cathleens 28 -- 2. Under Siege: Blood, Borders, and the Body Politic 69 -- 3. Excess of Love: Padraig Pearse and the Erotics of Sacrifice 123 -- 4. The Body of Truth: Sensationalism and Sacrifice in Sean O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy 167 -- 5. Misbirth of a Nation: Yeats and the Irish Free State 227. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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, H |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Gender and modern Irish drama |
| ISBN: | 1-282-07200-5 |
| 9786612072000 | |
| 9780253109376 | |
| 0-253-10973-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814152503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Drama and performance studies ; ; v. 14.