Out of History: Essays on the Writings of Sebastian Barry

ISBN-13: 9781788749503 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 264 str.

Christina Hunt Mahony

Opis

This book, edited by Christina Hunt Mahony, presents twelve essays that trace the development of Sebastian Barry's career and the individual achievement of his works, concentrating largely, but not exclusively, on the plays.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements - List of Illustrations - Christina Hunt Mahony - Introduction - Peter Denman - From Rhetoric to Narrative: The Poems of Sebastian Barry - Éilís Ní Dhuibhne - Transcending Genre: Sebastian Barry's Juvenile Fiction - Bruce Stewart - 'To have a father is always big news': Theme and Structure in The Engine of Owl-Light - David Cregan - 'Everyman's story is the whisper of God': Sacred and Secular in Barry's Dramaturgy - Christina Hunt Mahony - Children of the Light amid the 'risky dancers': Barry's Naïfs and the Poetry of Humanism - John Wilson Foster - 'All the long traditions': Loyalty and Service in Barry and Ishiguro - Elizabeth Butler Cullingford - Colonial Policing: The Steward of Christendom and The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty - Anthony Roche - Redressing the Irish Theatrical Landscape: Sebastian Barry's The Only True History of Lizzie Finn - Nicholas Grene - Out of History: from The Steward of Christendom to Annie Dunne - Roy Foster - 'Something of us will remain': Sebastian Barry and Irish History - Colm Tóibín - Hinterland The Public Becomes Private - Claire Gleitman - 'In the dank margins of things': Whistling Psyche and the Illness of Empire - Bibliography of Works of Sebastian Barry - Contributors - Endnotes - Index.

O autorze

Christina Hunt Mahony, directs the Center for Irish Studies at the Catholic University of America, and is the author of Contemporary Irish Literature: Transforming Tradition.