European Lyric Folkdrama
A Definition
Robert M. Farrington sheds new light on nine folk-inspired rural dramas produced by three European playwrights between 1885 and 1936: Spain's Federico Garcia Lorca, Ireland's John Millington Synge, and Germany's Gerhart Hauptmann. Through an analysis of the linguistic conventions of the three dramatists and by tying their plays' language to a myth/ritual content, this book defines the works as representative of a sub-genre, that is, lyric folkdrama. A sound/meaning nexus is identified as an essential ingredient of folkdrama. To clarify this relationship between sound and meaning and to establish a theoretical basis for the linguistic analysis…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8204-5146-6
- EAN: 9780820451466
- Produktnummer: 19038805
- Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 195 S.
- Masse: H16.0 cm x B23.8 cm x D1.6 cm 412 g
- Gewicht: 412
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
The Author: Robert M. Farrington is an independent scholar living in New York State, where he teaches composition, literature, and E.S.L. at Bronx and Westchester community colleges. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University. A published poet, he is presently completing his first novel, a Native American captivity tale.
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