The Aran Islands Paperback - 1992
by J. M. Synge; Introduction by Tim Robinson
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In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran Islands, published in the same year, records his visits to the islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of which he forged The Playboy and his other major dramas.
Yet this book is much more than a stage in the evolution of Synge the dramatist. As Tim Robinson explains in his introduction, "If Ireland is intriguing as being an island off the west of Europe, then Aran, as an island off the west of Ireland, is still more so; it is Ireland raised to the power of two." Towards the end of the last century Irish nationalists came to identify the area as the country's uncorrupted heart, the repository of its ancient language, culture and spiritual values. It was for these reasons that Yeats suggested Synge visit the islands to record their way of life. The result is a passionate exploration of a triangle of contradictory relationships – between an island community still embedded in its ancestral ways but solicited by modernism, a physical environment of ascetic loveliness and savagely unpredictable moods, and Synge himself, formed by modern European thought but in love with the primitive.
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- Title The Aran Islands
- Author J. M. Synge; Introduction by Tim Robinson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date November 3, 1992
- Features Maps
- ISBN 9780140184327 / 0140184325
- Weight 0.31 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 7.76 x 5.08 x 0.52 in (19.71 x 12.90 x 1.32 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Dewey Decimal Code 941.748
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