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Two poets, a playwright and a novelist - Michael Longley, Eavan
Boland, Frank McGuiness and Anita Desai - explore in these essays
aspects of the imaginative process as each has experienced it: four
major writers, four sensibilities, four ways of seeing creativity
and its contexts. MICHAEL LONGLEY writes with remarkable candour of
his years - 1970 to 1991 - as arts administrator in Northern
Ireland. Transforming anecdote into parable, this noted poet
measures the cost of 'trying to remain true to yourself facing the
"dark tower"' while being part of an essential but often
soul-destroying bureaucracy. EAVAN BOLAND, merging the personal and
the theoretical, contends that the place of women as writers in
Irish society have been shaped by a ' fusion of the national and
the feminine'. FRANK MCGUINESS, the internationally acclaimed
playwright, offers a radically innovative reading of Oscar Wilde's
De Profundis, while calling into being the material contexts of
creativity - in this instance, a prison cell. The Indian novelist
ANITA DESAI looks at her country's colonial heritage and a shared
background that gave rise to the work of Nobel Laureate
Rabindranath Tagore and the film-maker Satyajit Ray. Her
fascinating lecture shows how a vibrant indigenous culture, coming
into fruitful contact with the West at the end of the nineteenth
century, blossomed into artistic creation - yielding parallels with
Ireland.
From the late 1940s, until shortly before his death in 2007, John
Devitt was one of Dublin's most avid and discerning theatre-goers.
For John, attending the theatre was something more than an evening
out: it was a passion, a commitment, almost a vocation. A born
raconteur, John could talk about productions from the 1950s, 1960s
or 1970s as if he had just stepped out of the theatre, fresh from
the experience that meant so much to him. This book is much more
than a record of the oral history of Dublin theatre-going that his
memories contained - it is a glimpse into a life that was witty,
argumentative, and vigorous, but never dull.
Seamus Heaney once described the 'sense of place' generated by the
early Abbey theatre as the 'imaginative protein' of later Irish
writing. Drawing on theorists of space such as Henri Lefebvre and
Yi-Fu Tuan, Mapping Irish Theatre argues that theatre is 'a machine
for making place from space'. Concentrating on Irish theatre, the
book investigates how this Irish 'sense of place' was both produced
by, and produced, the remarkable work of the Irish Revival, before
considering what happens when this spatial formation begins to
fade. Exploring more recent site-specific and place-specific
theatre alongside canonical works of Irish theatre by playwrights
including J. M. Synge, Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel, the study
proposes an original theory of theatrical space and theatrical
identification, whose application extends beyond Irish theatre, and
will be useful for all theatre scholars.
Seamus Heaney once described the 'sense of place' generated by the
early Abbey theatre as the 'imaginative protein' of later Irish
writing. Drawing on theorists of space such as Henri Lefebvre and
Yi-Fu Tuan, Mapping Irish Theatre argues that theatre is 'a machine
for making place from space'. Concentrating on Irish theatre, the
book investigates how this Irish 'sense of place' was both produced
by, and produced, the remarkable work of the Irish Revival, before
considering what happens when this spatial formation begins to
fade. Exploring more recent site-specific and place-specific
theatre alongside canonical works of Irish theatre by playwrights
including J. M. Synge, Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel, the study
proposes an original theory of theatrical space and theatrical
identification, whose application extends beyond Irish theatre, and
will be useful for all theatre scholars.
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