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| Titre : | Other Dimensions : myth, ritual and sacrifice in Brian Friel's Wonderful Tennessee (1997) |
| Auteurs : | Alan PEACOCK, Auteur ; Kathleen DEVINE, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Etudes irlandaises (Vol 22 n 1 1997) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 85-100 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | This article plots a strain in Brian Friel's drama which canvasses human needs for categories of fulfilment broadly "religious" in nature, which involve subscription to customs and rituals which transcend accepted social norms. Just as Dancing at Lughnasa explores a sub-stratum of pagan lore beneath 1930's Irish rural life, Wonderful Tennessee examines a related need for irrational modes of ritualised self-fulfilment among a contemporary post-Christian urban group. A "double-level" mix of realistic, symbolic and allusive techniques, taking in Christian and Bacchic elements, enacts their developing awareness of this need |
| Pays de publication : | France |
| Lieu de publication : | Villeneuve d'Ascq |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Alan J. Peacock |
| Autre mention de responsabilité : | Kathleen Devine |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
