European Lyric Folkdrama : A Definition
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0820451460
ISBN-13
9780820451466
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 26th, 2001
Print length
195 Pages
Weight
412 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 23.80 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Acting techniquesPhilosophy of languageFolklore, myths & legends
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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, the study draws from works on myth, ritual, drama, and poetic language by Aristotle, Richard Wagner, Mircea Eliade, and Northrop Frye, as well as from critical studies by the structuralists Roman Jakobson and Claude Lévi-Strauss.
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