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Gags and Greasepaint
This volume is a paean to the Revue, the Fit-Up and the fifty or more travelling roadshows which traversed the roads of Ireland during the heyday of the fit-ups, the decades prior to the Second World War. This book is a personal memoir of one of the goddesses of Irish repertory theatre?Vic (Victoria Loving)?the woman known as the Sequin Queen?as recounted by her granddaughter, one of the last of these travelling artistes. It is a celebration of Irelands curtain up, and the five-.
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Gender and modern Irish drama
Gender and Modern Irish Drama argues that the representations of
sacrificial violence central to the work of the Abbey playwrights are intimately
linked with constructions of gender and sexuality. Susan Cannon Harris goes beyond
an examination of the relationship between Irish national drama and Irish
nationalist politics to the larger question of the way national identity and gender
identity are constructed through each other. Radically redefining the context in
which the Abbey plays were performed, Harris documents the material and discursive
forces that produced Irish conceptions of gender. She looks at cultural
constructions of the human body and their influence on nationalist rhetoric, linking
the production and reception of the plays to conversations about public health,
popular culture, economic policy, and racial identity that were taking place inside
and outside the nationalist community. The book is both a crucial intervention in
Irish studies and an important contribution to the ongoing feminist project of
theorizing the production of gender and the body.
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Final Curtain on the War: Figure and Ground in Virginia Woolf's \Between the Acts\
Virginia Woolf's final novel, written during the London Blitz, constitutes a figure and ground cognitive problem as defined by gestalt psychology, but within the context of the relation of the \"real\" to the situation of wartime. Two major strains from Woolf s diary entries and letters written during the war, \"cognitive disorientation\" and \"reverse evolution,\" are gradually woven into the text during her revisions, the former drawing on theatrical discourse of war as spectacle and the latter drawing on anthropological discourse, specifically the narrative of evolution. The form of Between the Acts is a series of shining planes of figure and ground between the acts of the play within the novel and between the events in the lives of the characters watching the play. The collapse of these two planes into each other at the end questions the ontological status of the book's closure and cultural myths about the primordial, the \"reality of war,\" and the place of the artist and woman in wartime.
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An Interview with Valerie Martin
Valerie Martin is known for her disturbing gothic visions of New Orleans, the city of her youth. Martin discusses her writing career in an interview.
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Thinking Back Through our Mothers: Virginia Woolf Reads Shakespeare
Despite Virginia Woolf's outright search for female muses, several critics embrace the heterosexual model of poet-muse relationships and argue that William Shakespeare fills a paternal role for Woolf.
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Of Two Minds: Woolf, the War and \Between the Acts\
Virginia Woolf's novel \"Between the Acts\" is discussed. Many readers of this have seen it as an affirmation of and longing for England's traditional past, as a relinquishment of Woolf's feminist resistance to the cultural centrality of masculinism, or as an admission of the inefficacy of language and literature, especially in time of war.
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