Building (In) the Promised Land: Postcolonial Biblical Readings of Contemporary Irish Drama (2000-2015)

ISBN-13: 9783631864708 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 312 str.

Grzegorz Koneczniak

Opis

This book offers new readings of recent Irish plays. Following C. Morash's historiographic metaphor of Babel, it combines this and other appropriations of the Biblical theme of building found in the plays by such authors as M. McKenna, D. Bolger, S. Gregg, R. Dormer or S. Barry.

Spis treści

Cultural appropriations of the Bible - symbolism of building - Christopher Morash's histriographic metaphor of Babel - postcolonial Biblical criticism - Irish drama - Abbey Theatre - Ballymun Trilogy - Dermot Bolger - Drum Belly - Richard Dormer - Shibboleth - Stacey Gregg - Tales of Ballycumber - Sebastian Barry - Tillsonburg - Malachy McKenna

O autorze

Grzegorz Koneczniak is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Comparative Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruñ, Poland. He specialises in Irish literature and textual as well as editorial aspects of literary works.