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Author:   Maria Kurdi
Publisher:   The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Imprint:   Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9780773414211

ISBN 10:   0773414215
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   December 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Legacy of Foremothers and Contexts for the Development of Women's Playwriting in Ireland; Introduction; Lady Gregory's Explorations of Gender; Women's Position in Early Twentieth-century Ireland; Teresa Deevy's Representation of Female Consciousness; Feminism in Ireland; Irish Drama by Women after Deevy; Chapter 2: Body Politics and Dress Codes; The Body in Ireland and in the Irish Theatre; Discipline, Transgression, and Transcendence; Constructions of Aging; Teenagers and Violence; Rejection, Suicide, and Transformation; Abjection and Destructiveness; Chapter 3: Performance, Metatheatre, and Carnival; Identity, Performativity, and Theatre; Role-playing and the Manipulation of the Gaze; Cross-Gender Impersonation and Masquerade; Transgression and Carnivalisation; Dying as Performance; Chapter 4: Character Constellations and Female Genealogies; Mapping the Character in Irish Women's Drama; Contrasting and Complementary Characters; Female Genealogies and Foils; The Character and its Double; The Mother-Daughter Relationship; Chapter 5: Storytelling, Narrators, and the Monologue Form; Narrative in Irish Drama; Telling (her)stories; Homodiegetic Narrators; Variations on the Female Monologue; Chapter 6: Adaptation, Rewriting, and Intertextuality; The Practice of Rewriting and Intertextuality in Irish Drama; Updating Celtic Myths; The Adaptation of Ancient Myths; Appropriating Techniques and Motifs from Revivalist Drama; Dramatic Conversations with Beckett and Friel; Intercultural Parallels with Contemporary World Literature; Chapter 7: Space and the Trope of the Journey; Space and Spatial Relations in Modern Irish Drama; Negotiations of the Female Experience through Space; Dysfunctional Homes and Alternative Spaces; Female Journeys and Nomadism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Both Irish theatre and Irish scholarship owe a huge debt to the analysis of Maria Kurdi and the singular way she places the dramatic work nationally and internationally. Kurdi's world view and perspectives bring into play a range of critical and discursive strategies and sensibilities that are uniquely combined and interdigitated, but also groundbreakingly invaluable. (Dr. Eamonn Jordan University College Dublin) Scholarly, lively, and accessible, this book is destined to become a standard reference for all students of modern Irish drama... (Prof. Christopher Murray University College Dublin)

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