The Achievement of Brian Friel Hardcover - 1994
by Alan J. Peacock (Editor)
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The reception of Brian Friel's recent Dancing at Lughnasa confirms his status as Ireland's leading dramatist. The body of work that he has produced is outstanding in its breadth of sympathy and interest, its dramaturgical invention and its wide cultural and intellectual purview. At one level, it may be seen as a continuous examination of Irish culture and politics, committed and analytical, but not sectionally propagandist. His outlook in his drama, however, is not amenable to simplistic categorization, political or otherwise. As this volume demonstrates, linguistically, allusively, and in terms of its broad transcultural analogising, his work ranges widely. He utilises ideas and terminologies drawn from various cultural sources and academic disciplines in a way that exemplifies his central, insistent concern with the phenomenon of language and implications. As an Irish dramatist, however, he makes Irish social, political and, notably, family life his focus and builds upon a recognised tradition of twentieth century Irish play-writing. This book addresses the variety and complexity of Friel's drama by bringing to bear a range of academic and other professional and creative approaches in order to highlight particular aspects of his work and thought. Hence, contributors include a playwright, poet, theatre-producer, historian and various specialists in relevant literatures. In this way, the book suggests the intellectual richness, humanity, and protean skill and invention of the work.
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- Title The Achievement of Brian Friel
- Author Alan J. Peacock (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Buckingham, United Kingdom
- Date October 25, 1994
- ISBN 9780861403493 / 0861403495
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96215686
- Dewey Decimal Code 822.914
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