"Flann O'Brien: Acting Out is the first full-length study to comprehensively address the themes of performance, masking and illusion in the author's fiction, columns, correspondence and scripts. These essays reveal, for the first time, the fullness of O'Brien's literary enga...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Fagan, Paul (HerausgeberIn), Fuchs, Dieter 1971- (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cork Cork University Press 2022
Schlagworte:	O'Brien, Flann > 1911-1966 O'Brien, Flann / 1911-1966 / Criticism and interpretation Performance in literature English drama / Irish authors / 20th century Irish drama / 20th century Rendement au travail dans la littérature Théâtre anglais / Auteurs irlandais / 20e siècle Théâtre irlandais / 20e siècle O'Brien, Flann / 1911-1966 / https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJbWrPgXDVrfrmWCDTJJjC Irish drama English drama / Irish authors 1900-1999 Criticism, interpretation, etc Aufsatzsammlung
Zusammenfassung:	"Flann O'Brien: Acting Out is the first full-length study to comprehensively address the themes of performance, masking and illusion in the author's fiction, columns, correspondence and scripts. These essays reveal, for the first time, the fullness of O'Brien's literary engagements with diverse theatrical movements (melodrama, revivalism, tableaux vivant, Grand Guignol, modernist anti-theatre) and playwrights (Shakespeare, Goethe, Boucicault, Synge, Yeats, Gregory, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, Capek). Often considered a lonely pioneer of the Irish novel, the author is here resituated both among a troupe of mid-century playwrights, producers and performers (mac Liammoír, Edwards, Saroyan, Montgomery, Sheridan, MacNamara, O'Dea) and in front of discrete local audiences (at The Irish Times, the Abbey, the Gate, Radio Éireann, Telefís Éireann). A new picture of O'Brien emerges as a performative and collaborative writer, firmly imbedded in the cultural networks and institutions of his time and place. Flann O'Brien: Acting out draws unprecedented attention to the author's critically neglected writing for stage and screen (Thirst, Faustus Kelly, Rhapsody in Stephen's Green, An Sgian, The Handsome Carvers, Mairéad Gillan, The Dead Spit of Kelly). These scripts are here reevaluated against their historical contexts and through their thematics of war, nationalism, gender, nonhuman bodies and posthuman identity. At the same time, innovative readings of the role of masking and mimicry in the fiction and columns (At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman, 'John Duffy's Brother', 'The Martyr's Crown', Cruiskeen Lawn) shed new critical light on O'Brien's pseudonyms, his theories of literary performance, his modulation of comic and tragic tone, and his shifting place in Irish modernism."--Publisher's website
Beschreibung:	xiv, 450 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:	9781782055358