Sean Carney

The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy (eBook, PDF)

Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy

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Produktbeschreibung

The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy is a detailed study of the idea of the tragic in the political plays of David Hare, Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane, and Jez Butterworth.

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Sean Carney is an associate professor in the Department of English at McGill University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442663503
• Artikelnr.: 48945399

Autorenporträt

By Sean Carney

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One
David Hare: The Work of Mourning, or, The Agony and the Ecstasy of the
Bourgeoisie
The Year of Magical Thinking – Teeth ‘n’ Smiles – Plenty –– The Secret
Rapture – Skylight – The Judas Kiss – Amy’s View – My Zinc Bed – The
Permanent Way –– The Vertical Hour – Gethsemane
Chapter Two
Howard Barker: Will and Desire – From the Tragedy of Socialism to the
Ecstasy of the Unconscious
Claw – Fair Slaughter – That Good Between Us –– The Power of the Dog –
Victory – The Castle – The Europeans –– The Possibilities – Gertrude-The
Cry – Dead Hands – The Seduction of Almighty God by the Boy Priest Loftus
in the Abbey of Calcetto, 1539
Chapter Three
Edward Bond: Tragedy and Postmodernity, or, The Promethean Impulse
Saved – Lear – Bingo – The Fool –– Restoration –– The War Plays – Olly’s
Prison – At the Inland Sea – Coffee– The Crime of the Twenty-First Century
– Chair
Chapter Four
Caryl Churchill: The Dionysian Möbius Strip
Seven Jewish Children – Lovesick – Abortive –– Owners – Traps –– Light
Shining in Buckinghamshire – Cloud Nine – Top Girls – Fen – A Mouthful of
Birds –– Lives of the Great Poisoners – The Skriker – Thyestes ––– Far Away
–– A Number
Chapter Five
New English Tragedians: The Tragedy of the Tragic
Mark Ravenhill: Shopping and Fucking – Faust is Dead – Handbag – Some
Explicit Polaroids – Product – The Cut – pool (no water) – Sarah Kane:
Blasted – Phaedra’s Love – Cleansed – Crave – 4.48 Psychosis
Conclusion: Late Modernism in Jerusalem
Works Cited
Index