George Cusack

The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama (eBook, ePUB)

W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J.M. Synge

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This study examines the early dramatic works of Yeats, Synge, and Gregory in the context of late colonial Ireland's unique socio-political landscape. Cusack demonstrates the complex negotiation of nationalism, class, and gender identities undertaken by these authors in the years leading up to Ireland's revolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135855970
• Artikelnr.: 38450360

Autorenporträt

George Cusack is an instructor in the Expository Writing Program at the University of Oklahoma. He is the editor, with Sarah Goss, of Hungry Words: Images of Famine in the Irish Canon.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Kathleen ni Houlihan and the Perception of Propaganda
Chapter Two: Yeats: The Inner Life on the National Stage
Chapter Three: Gregory: Nationality as Narrative
Chapter Four: Synge: The Liberation of Language
Chapter Five: The Playboy of the Western World and the End of Artistic
Nationalism
Notes
Bibliography
Index