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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Playboy of the Western world"”.
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"A Soft Lad the Like of You": Complex Father-Son Relationships in Three "Millennial" Irish Texts
<p>This thesis addresses the complex relationship between fathers and sons in three highly successful literary texts that grapple with Irish nationalism: Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl, J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, and Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People. Each text comes …
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Ein Vergleich: Das österreichische und irische ländliche Volksstück des 20. Jahrhunderts als Ausdruck nationaler Selbstdarstellung auf der Bühne
A Comparative Study: The Rural Austrian and Irish Volksstück of the 20th Century as a Means of National Self-depiction on Stage This study, firstly, identifies parallels within the genre of the rural play in Ireland and Austria from the 19th century up to present-day trends. Secondly, it …
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Matters of verisimilitude: transitional and transnational realisms in Ireland, 1880-1940
Critics often narrate the Irish Literary Revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a rejection of literary realism, specifically its English incarnation. Critics such as David Lloyd and Terry Eagleton have argued that the conditions of colonial Ireland – social instability, …