Brian Friel's (post)colonial drama : language, illusion, and politics

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Label

Brian Friel's (post)colonial drama : language, illusion, and politics

Title remainder

language, illusion, and politics

Statement of responsibility

F.C. McGrath

Creator

• McGrath, F. C., (Francis Charles)

Subject

• Friel, Brian -- Criticism and interpretation
• Friel, Brian -- Language
• Illusion in literature
• Ireland -- In literature
• Northern Ireland -- In literature
• Political plays, English -- Irish authors | History and criticism
• Politics and literature -- Ireland
• Politics and literature -- Northern Ireland
• Postcolonialism -- Ireland
• Decolonization in literature

Language

eng

Summary

"Brian Friel is Ireland's most important living playwright, and this book places him in the new canon of postcolonial writers. Drawing on the theory and techniques of the major postcolonial critics, F. C. McGrath offers fresh interpretations of Friel's texts and of his place in the tradition of linguistic idealism in Irish literature." "This book illustrates how Friel playfully subverts the English language and transcends British influence. Friel's reality is constructed from personal fiction, and it is his liberating response to oppression."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

822/.914

Index

index present

LC call number

PR6056.R5

LC item number

Z825 1999

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Irish studies