Mary Burke

'Tinkers'

Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveller

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Irish playwright J M Synge created influential but misunderstood representations of Travellers - or 'tinkers' - a minority that has existed on Ireland's margins for centuries. The first cultural history of the Traveller traces the figure from medieval Irish historiography and English Renaissance literature to contemporary screen depictions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 148mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9780199566464
• ISBN-10: 0199566461
• Artikelnr.: 26175510

Autorenporträt

Mary Burke is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and Queen's University Belfast, and was the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Keough-Naughton Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame in 2003-04. She joined the University of Connecticut as an Assistant Professor of English in 2004, where she teaches twentieth-century Irish literature and directs the Irish Literature Concentration.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* 1: Irish and British literary antecedents of the Revival tinker
* 2: Synge's negotiation of constructs of the tinker
* 3: Playboys of the Eastern World: Synge's bohemian tinkers and
pre-Celtic Islanders
* 4: Reaffirming sedentary values: The tinker in post-Revival drama and
prose
* 5: The end of the 'tinker': Irish writing after Traveller
politicization
* 6: Screening the Travel(l)er
* Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Biographical notes
* Glossary of terms
* Index