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9781904505174

Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry 'The Work has Value'

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  • ISBN13:

    9781904505174

  • ISBN10:

    1904505171

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-11-24
  • Publisher: Carysfort Press Limited
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Summary

The essays gathered in Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry survey the most remarkable playwriting career of Ireland's foremost playwright - a career that now spans close to five decades.

Table of Contents

Copyright Acknowledgements x
Preface xi
1 Introduction: Transparent, Oblique Voices
Paulo Eduardo Carvalho
1(12)
PORTRAITS OF THE ARTIST
2 'Singing of Human Unsuczess'. Brian Friel's Portraits of the Artist
Csilla Bertha and Donald E. Morse
13(22)
3 Restless Wanderers and Great Pretenders; Fox Melarkey and Frank Hardy
Giovanna Tallone
35(26)
4 Music and Words in Brian Friel's Performances
Csilla Bertha
61(12)
AMBIGUITIES OF LANGUAGE
5 Interpreting Between Privacies: Brian Friel and the Boundaries of Language
Ger FitzGibbon
73(20)
6 Palimpsest: Two Languages as One in Translations
Christopher Murray
93(16)
7 The Hungarian Translator's View of Translations and the Problems in Translating it into Hungarian
Márton Mesterházi
109(14)
PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL TORMENTS
8 Unveiling the Vice: A Reading of Faith Healer
Giovanna Tallone
123(18)
9 Telling Tales: Narratives of Politics and Sexuality in The Gentle Island
Michael Parker
141(40)
RITUAL AND CEREMONY
10 Questing for Ritual and Ceremony in a Godforsaken World: Dancing at Lughnasa and Wonderful Tennessee
Richard Allen Cave
181(24)
DISABILITY AND EMPOWERMENT
11 Disability as Motif and Meaning in Brian Friel's Drama
Ruth Niel
205(24)
12 Molly Sweeney and its Sources: A Postmodern Case History
Christopher Murray
229(22)
POLITICS IN AND OF THE THEATRE
13 About Some Healthy Intersections: Brian Friel and Field Day
Paulo Eduardo Carvalho
251(20)
14 Forms of Redress: Structure and Characterization in The Freedom of the City
Michael Parker
271(30)
15 An Interview with Richard Pine about Brian Friel's Theatre
Mária Kurdi
301(24)
Contributors 325(6)
Index 331

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