Bloody Living

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The Loss of Selfhood in the Plays of Marina Carr

Rhona Trench, Rhona Trench

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Verlag Peter Lang
15 April 2010

Acting techniques; Theatre: technical & background skills; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Gender studies: women; Psychology

Series: Reimagining Ireland

This book deals with the process of negotiation with the past in the present through the plays of Marina Carr. The title frames the work, connoting the path towards destruction and the sense of lethargy acquired along the way. The book offers an in-depth and extensive reading of Carr’s plays. In doing so, it surveys some of the destructive issues represented in the works and provides a series of social and cultural contexts to which the concerns in the works are related.

Carr is best known for her trilogy, The Mai, Portia Coughlan and By the Bog of Cats…, and more recently Woman and Scarecrow, The Cordelia Dream and Marble. The plays are regularly concerned with notions of identity in the context of self-destruction, self-estrangement and displacement. This book applies Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to Carr’s plays in an effort to structure the loss the author identifies in the works. Themes of memory, history and myth are examined in the context of these concerns in provocative and confrontational ways.

By: Rhona Trench, Rhona Trench
Imprint: Verlag Peter Lang
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: New edition
Volume: 20
Dimensions: Height: 220mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 470g
ISBN: 9783039119646
ISBN 10: 3039119648
Series: Reimagining Ireland
Pages: 322
Publication Date: 15 April 2010
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

The Author: Rhona Trench holds a doctorate in Contemporary Irish Theatre from Queen’s University Belfast. She is Programme Chair and teaches on the B.A. in Performing Arts (Hons) at IT Sligo. She was the Symposium Convenor for the Irish Society for Theatre Research Conference 2009. She is currently writing on the practice of the Blue Raincoat Theatre Company, Sligo.