Theatre and Residual Culture [[electronic resource] ] : J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland / / by Christopher Collins
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Collins Christopher
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| Titolo: |
Theatre and Residual Culture [[electronic resource] ] : J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland / / by Christopher Collins
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XII, 301 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 792.09 |
| Soggetto topico: | Theater—History |
| Great Britain—History | |
| Religion and sociology | |
| Catholic Church | |
| Literature, Modern—20th century | |
| Theatre History | |
| History of Britain and Ireland | |
| Religion and Society | |
| Catholicism | |
| Twentieth-Century Literature | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Ireland In literature |
| Ireland Religion | |
| Ireland | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. . |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Theatre and Residual Culture |
| ISBN: | 1-349-94872-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910255227003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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