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Gender and modern Irish drama [[electronic resource] /] / Susan Cannon Harris



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Autore: Harris Susan C (Susan Cannon), <1969-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Gender and modern Irish drama [[electronic resource] /] / Susan Cannon Harris Visualizza cluster
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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-07200-5
9786612072000
9780253109376
0-253-10973-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910456005703321
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Serie: Drama and performance studies ; ; v. 14.