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Assessing The Achievement Of J. M. Synge »

Authors: Alexander G. Gonzalez
ISBN-13: 9780313297144, ISBN-10: 0313297142
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: November 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Alexander G. Gonzalez

ALEXANDER G. GONZALEZ, Professor of English, is the Irish-literature specialist at Cortland College of the State University of New York.

Book Synopsis

Challenges the apparent decline of Synge's reputation and establishes his relevance to contemporary audiences and readers.

Booknews

Playwright Synge (1871-1909) was once thought to have acquired a permanent and secure place in the canon of Irish literature. But over the past decade, no conferences have been held on his work, almost no papers have been presented even at Irish literature gatherings, and students are disliking him. Here critics offer 14 essays in an effort to rehabilitate him by reconsidering some established aspects, comparing him with popular modern authors, and offering completely new perspectives on the plays. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

	Preface and Acknowledgments
1	Resentment, Relevance, and the Production History of The Playboy of the Western World	1
2	The Playboy, Critics, and the Enduring Problem of the Audience	10
3	A Young Man's Ghost: J. M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World, and W. B. Yeats's A Vision	24
4	Tragic Self-Referral in Riders to the Sea	38
5	Death and the Colleen: The Shadow of the Glen	51
6	The Wooing of Etain: Celtic Myth and The Shadow of the Glen	57
7	Of Holy Wells and Sacred Spells: Strange Comedy at the Abbey	75
8	"Passing the gap": Reading the Betwixt and Between of Liminality in J. M. Synge's The Well of the Saints	84
9	"More Matter for a May Morning": J. M. Synge's The Tinker's Wedding	97
10	"Cute Thinking Women": The Language of Synge's Female Vagrants	118
11	Synge's Deirdre of the Sorrows: Defamiliarizing the Myth	130
12	"Stimulating stories of our own land": "History Making" and the Work of J. M. Synge	139
13	The Devil and Auld Mahoun: Exposing the Trickster Archetype in Synge's Christy Mahon by Way of Rushdie's Muhammad/Mahound	151
14	J. M. Synge's Vagrant Aesthetic	169
	Selected Bibliography	183
	Index	189
	About the Editor and Contributors	195

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Literary Criticism

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Fiction Books & Literature

Literary Criticism

Irish Literature

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