1st Edition
The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J.M. Synge
By George Cusack
Copyright 2009
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study examines the early dramatic works of Yeats, Synge, and Gregory in the context of late colonial Ireland’s unique socio-political landscape. By contextualizing each author’s work within the artistic and political discourses of their time, Cusack demonstrates the complex negotiation of nationalism, class, and gender identities undertaken by these three authors in the years leading up to... Read more
Introduction
- Kathleen Ni Houlihan and the Perception of Propaganda
- Yeats: The Inner Life on the National Stage
- Gregory: Nationality as Narrative
- Synge: The Liberation of Language
- The Playboy of the Western World and the End of Artistic Nationalism
Conclusion
Biography
George Cusack is an instructor in the Expository Writing Program at the University of Oklahoma. He is the editor, with Sarah Goss, of Hungry Words: Images of Famine in the Irish Canon.
