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About this book
Out of History is the first book to appear on the work of award-winning Irish author Sebastian Barry. Barry is recognized as one of Ireland's greatest living writers and his works now appear regularly on syllabuses in U.S.colleges, in Irish Studies and in Drama departments. This book, edited by Christina Hunt Mahony, presents twelve essays that trace the development of the writer's career and the individual achievement of his works, concentrating largely, but not exclusively, on the plays. The essays address Barry's engagement with the contemporary cultural debate in Ireland and also with issues that inform postcolonlal critical theory.
The essays in this volume include contributions from the most prominent of Irish Studies critics from Ireland, Britain, and the United States. Among the contributors are two prize-winning novelists, a historian and recent biographer of the poet W.B. Yeats, a former editor of Poetry Ireland, and several theatre historians and critics. The range and selection of contributors to this volume has ensured a high level of critical expression and an insightful assessment of Barry and his works.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright Information
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- 1 Introduction/ Christina Hunt Mahony
- 2 From Rhetoric to Narrative: The Poems of Sebastian Barry/ Peter Denman
- 3 Transcending Genre: Sebastian Barryâs Juvenile Fiction/ ĂilĂs NĂ Dhuibhne
- 4 âTo have a father is always big newsâ: Theme and Structure in The Engine of Owl-Light/ Bruce Stewart
- 5 âEverymanâs story is the whisper of Godâ: Sacred and Secular in Barryâs Dramaturgy/ David Cregan
- 6 Children of the Light amid the ârisky dancersâ: Barryâs NaĂŻfs and the Poetry of Humanism/ Christina Hunt Mahony
- 7 âAll the long traditionsâ: Loyalty and Service in Barry and Ishiguro/ John Wilson Foster
- 8 Colonial Policing: The Steward of Christendom and The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty/ Elizabeth Butler Cullingford
- 9 Redressing the Irish Theatrical Landscape: Sebastian Barryâs The Only True History of Lizzie Finn/ Anthony Roche
- 10 Out of History: from The Steward of Christendom to Annie Dunne/ Nicholas Grene
- 11 âSomething of us will remainâ: Sebastian Barry and Irish History/ Roy Foster
- 12 Hinterland The Public Becomes Private/ Colm TĂłibĂn
- 13 âIn the dank margins of thingsâ: Whistling Psyche and the Illness of Empire/ Claire Gleitman
- Bibliography of Works of Sebastian Barry
- Contributors
- Endnotes
- Index