The Art of Brian Friel: Neither Reality Nor Dreams [Hardcover]

This is a critical study of Friel's entire oeuvre, relating Friel's work to the problems of subjectivity, representation, history and the body, with a view to offering some placement of Friel in relation to both postmodernism and traditional humanism. Central to this study is Friel's concept of 'translation', whereby he offers us the tension of shaping the new through a 'translation' or reformulation of the old.Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - Background, Basic Premises, Early Work - Dismantling the Unified Subject: The Plays of the 1960s - Disrupting the Unified Text: The Plays of the 1970s - Re-Writing History: The Plays of the 1980s - Foregrounding the Body: The Plays of the 1990s