Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry: 'The Work Has Value'

ISBN-13: 9781788749466 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 356 str.

Donald E. Morse; Csilla Bertha; Maria Kurdi

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Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry makes an important contribution to our understanding of the work of Ireland's greatest living playwright. The fifteen essays collected here provide us with new perspectives on Friel's most familiar works.

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Copyright Acknowledgements - Preface - Paulo Eduardo Carvalho - Introduction: Transparent, Oblique Voices - PORTRAITS OF THE ARTIST - Csilla Bertha and Donald E. Morse - 'Singing of Human Unsuccess': Brian Friel's Portraits of the Artist - Giovanna Tallone - Restless Wanderers and Great Pretenders: Fox Melarkey and Frank Hardy - Csilla Bertha - Music and Words in Brian Friel's Performances - AMBIGUITIES OF LANGUAGE - Ger FitzGibbon - Interpreting Between Privacies: Brian Friel and the Boundaries of Language - Christopher Murray - Palimpsest: Two Languages as One in Translations - Márton Mesterházi - The Hungarian Translator's View of Translations and the Problems in Translating it into Hungarian - PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL TORMENTS - Giovanna Tallone - Unveiling the Vice: A Reading of Faith Healer - Michael Parker - Telling Tales: Narratives of Politics and Sexuality in The Gentle Island - RITUAL AND CEREMONY - Richard Allen Cave - Questing for Ritual and Ceremony in a Godforsaken World: Dancing at Lughnasa and Wonderful Tennessee - DISABILITY AND EMPOWERMENT - Ruth Niel - Disability as Motif and Meaning in Brian Friel's Drama - Christopher Murray - Molly Sweeney and its Sources: A Postmodern Case History - POLITICS IN AND OF THE THEATRE - Paulo Eduardo Carvalho - About Some Healthy Intersections: Brian Friel and Field Day - Michael Parker - Forms of Redress: Structure and Characterization in The Freedom of the City - Mária Kurdi - An Interview with Richard Pine about Brian Friel's Theatre - Contributors - Index.