| Description |
xi, 285 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Background, Basic Premises, Early Work. 'The Man from God Knows Where'. The Short Stories. Unpublished Early Plays. Introducing the Stage Plays: Postmodern Humanism -- 2. Subject: Dismantling the Unified Subject: The Plays of the 1960s. The Split Subject. The Enemy Within. Philadelphia, Here I Come! The Loves of Cass McGuire. Crystal and Fox. Lovers. The Mundy Scheme -- 3. Text: Disrupting the Unified Text: The Plays of the 1970s. The Plural Text. The Gentle Island. The Freedom of the City. Living Quarters. Volunteers. Aristocrats. Faith Healer -- 4. History: Rewriting History: The Plays of the 1980s. The Fifth Province. Translations. The Three Sisters. The Communication Cord. Fathers and Sons. Making History -- 5. Body: Foregrounding the Body: The Plays of the 1990s. 'Words, Words, Words'. Dancing at Lughnasa. The London Vertigo. A Month in the Country. Wonderful Tennessee |
| Summary |
Elmer Andrews's The Art of Brian Friel is a critical study of Friel's entire oeuvre, relating Friel's work to the problems of subjectivity, representation, history and the body which have exercised many recent thinkers and theorists. Andrews's aim is to offer some placement of Friel in relation to both postmodernism and traditional humanism |
| Analysis |
English drama |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-280) and index |
| Subject |
Friel, Brian -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Friel, Brian, 1929- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Friel, Brian.
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Dramatists, Irish -- 20th century.
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Irish drama -- 20th century.
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National characteristics, Irish, in literature.
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| SUBJECT |
Northern Ireland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055927 -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011414
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Northern Ireland -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116400
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| LC no. |
93039876 |
| ISBN |
031212046X |
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0333600754 (Macmillan) |
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