Book
Marina Carr
pastures of the unknown
Abstract
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.
Details | Table of Contents
towards a matriarchal lineage
pp.1-38
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98331-8_1early pastures
pp.39-72
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98331-8_2the mai
pp.73-91
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98331-8_3portia coughlan
pp.93-115
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98331-8_4by the bog of cats…
pp.117-147
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98331-8_5on Raftery's hill
pp.149-176
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98331-8_6ariel and woman and scarecrow
pp.177-204
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98331-8_7the cordelia dream and meat and salt
pp.205-222
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98331-8_8the giant blue hand and marble
pp.223-248
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98331-8_9sixteen possible glimpses, phaedra backwards and hecuba
pp.249-276
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98331-8_10through the gauze
pp.277-291
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98331-8_11Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2018
Pages: 303
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98331-8
ISBN (hardback): 978-3-319-98330-1
ISBN (digital): 978-3-319-98331-8
Full citation:
Sihra Melissa (2018) Marina Carr: pastures of the unknown. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.