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Title
Marina Carr : Pastures of the Unknown / by Melissa Sihra.
ISBN
9783319983318
3319983318
331998330X
9783319983301
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XIV, 303 pages 16 illustrations) : online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-319-98331-8 doi
Call Number
PN2000-3307
Dewey Decimal Classification
792
Summary
This book locates the theatre of Marina Carr within a female genealogy that revises the patriarchal origins of modern Irish drama. The creative vision of Lady Augusta Gregory underpins the analysis of Carr's dramatic vision throughout the volume in order to re-situate the woman artist as central to Irish theatre. For Carr, 'writing is more about the things you cannot understand than the things you can', and her evocation of 'pastures of the unknown' forms the thematic through-line of this work. Lady Gregory's plays offer an intuitive lineage with Carr which can be identified in their use of language, myth, landscape, women, the transformative power of storytelling and infinite energies of nature and the Otherworld. This book reconnects the severed bridge between Carr and Gregory in order to acknowledge a foundational status for all women in Irish theatre.
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1. Towards a Matriarchal Lineage
2. Seeking a Landscape: Early Pastures
3. Lakes of the Night: The Mai
4. Topographies of the Mind: Portia Coughlan
5. Writ in the Sky: By the Bog of Cats ...
6. The Haunted Kitchen: On Raftery's Hill
7. Psychic Terrains: Ariel and Woman and Scarecrow
8. Playing the Field: The Cordelia Dream and Meat and Salt
9. Landscapes of the Mind's Eye: The Giant Blue Hand and Marble
10. The Nature of Playwriting: Sixteen Possible Glimpses, Phaedra Backwards and Hecuba
11. Beyond the Gauze.
