The Theatre and Films of Conor McPherson: Conspicuous Communities

ISBN-13: 9781350051218 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 248 str.

Eamonn Jordan; Kevin J. Wetmore Jr; Patrick Lonergan

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Table of Contents Acknowledgements References and Abbreviations Introduction Career Breakthrough and Trajectory Working Assumptions and Methodology Performance Making Contexualizations Overview and Vectorisation Chapter One: Monopolies of Self/ Terms of Endearment Introduction: Stories and their Telling Monologues, Performers, Audiences Tiger Country Rum and Vodka: No Man in the Mirror The Good Thief: Degrees of Depravity This Lime Tree Bower: Three Strikes Not Out Port Authority: Last Resort Lineage Come on Over: The Third Narrator? Limelights, Spotlights, Lifelines Conclusion Chapter Two: Criminality and Caper Tragicomedy Introduction: City of Capital/Capital City I Went Down: On the Road to Nowhere? Saltwater: Finders Keepers The Actors: Infamy and Fortune Deserving and Undeserving Rich/Poor Conclusion Chapter Three: Convergent Realities: Ghosts and the Uncanny Introduction: For the Supernaturally Inclined St Nicholas: The gift/thief of a Story Shining City: Hiding in Plain Sight The Eclipse: Eleanor/Lena Paula: Immaculate Deception/Fatal Distraction Conclusion Chapter Four: Apocalyptic Dispossessions Introduction: Safe Houses and Parallel Universes The Birds: Unfitting Survival The Night Alive: The Banks are Bust The Veil: Gothic Dominoes The Girl from the North Country: The Great Escape Conclusion Chapter Five: Season’s Greetings Introduction: Christmases Past Persistent Overlaps and Evolutions Dublin Carol: Till Life Do Us Part The Seafarer: Hook, Line and Sinker Seasonal Raptures Conclusion Chapter 6: Conspicuous Communities Introduction: A Pastoral Sensitivity The Weir: Sleight of Register/ Sleight of Consciousness The Story Realm Relational Mismatches Your Round Conclusion Critical Perspectives Conor McPherson in Conversation Conor McPherson’s Haunted Women: The Weir, The Veil, and Paula Lisa Fitzpatrick Narrativity and the Narrator Figure in Conor McPherson’s Port Authority, The Veil, and Girl from the North Country Maha Alatawi “You know?” Ben Brantley Conclusion Quantum States Convergences Chronology Notes Further Readings Notes on Contributors Index