Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 482 g
Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 482 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-960988-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press
The dramatic career of the Irish playwright J.M. Synge, from his first plays in 1902 to his premature death in 1909, almost exactly coincided with the years of Edward VII's reign. Those years have long been studied in a British context, but Synge and Edwardian Ireland is the first book to explore the cultural life of Edwardian Ireland as a distinctive period. By emphasizing several less familiar Irish contexts for Synge's work - including a new sociological awareness, the rise of a local celebrity culture, an international theatre context, the arts and crafts movement, Irish classical music, and comedic writing by Somerville and Ross - this collection shows how the Revival's preoccupation with folk culture intersected with the new networks of mass communication in the late imperial world.
Although Synge is best known as a dramatist, this book concentrates on his prose and the ethnography of his photographs, the work in which his engagement with Edwardian Ireland can be most significantly seen. Often misunderstood as apolitical, Synge's writings and photography display a romantic resistance to modernity alongside their more accurate observations of contemporary conditions. It is through this ambivalent modernity that his work continued to haunt not just advocates like W.B. Yeats but even Synge's critics, including Padraig Pearse and James Joyce, all of whom were forced to come to imaginative terms with Synge through their own work.
This book aims to change readers' sense of Synge's significance, and by doing so to illuminate in a quite new way the era of Edwardian Ireland during this period of rapid modernization.
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- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I: Edwardian Ireland
- 1: Terence Brown: The Edwardian Condition of Ireland
- 2: Christopher Morash: Synge's Typewriter: the Technological Sublime in Edwardian Ireland
- 3: Lucy McDiarmid: Stalking Yeats: the Celebrity System of Revivalist Dublin
- 4: Adrian Frazier: Synge and Edwardian Theatre
- 5: Nicola Gordon Bowe: Preserving the Relics of Heroic Time: Visualizing the Celtic Revival in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland
- 6: Harry White: Synge, Music and Edwardian Dublin
- 7: Julie Anne Stevens: Political Animals: Somerville and Ross and Percy French on Edwardian Ireland
- Part II Synge: Contexts and Comparisons
- 8: David Fitzpatrick: Synge and Modernity in The Aran Islands
- 9: Nicholas Allen: Synge, Reading, and Archipelago
- 10: P.J. Mathews: Travelling Home: J.M. Synge and the Politics of Place
- 11: Justin Carville: With his "Mind-guided Camera ": J.M. Synge, J.J. Clarke and the Visual Politics of Edwardian Street Photography
- 12: Anne Markey: The price of kelp in Connemara: Synge, Pearse, and the idealisation of folk culture
- 13: Anne Fogarty: Ghostly Intertexts: James Joyce and the Legacy of Synge
- Bibliography
