Marina Carr Pastures of the Unknown /

• Main Author: Sihra, Melissa (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Theater.; British literature.; Contemporary Theatre.; British and Irish Literature.; National/Regional Theatre and Performance.

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 centra...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Towards a Matriarchal Lineage
• 2. Seeking a Landscape: Early Pastures
• 3. Lakes of the Night: The Mai
• 4. Topographies of the Mind: Portia Coughlan
• 5. Writ in the Sky: By the Bog of Cats...
• 6. The Haunted Kitchen: On Raftery's Hill
• 7. Psychic Terrains: Ariel and Woman and Scarecrow
• 8. Playing the Field: The Cordelia Dream and Meat and Salt
• 9. Landscapes of the Mind's Eye: The Giant Blue Hand and Marble
• 10. The Nature of Playwriting: Sixteen Possible Glimpses, Phaedra Backwards and Hecuba
• 11.Beyond the Gauze.