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The diviner : the art of Brian Friel

Written with the co-operation of Brian Friel and including an assessment of his latest work, this is a completely rewritten and updated edition of "Brian Friel and Ireland's Drama", published in 1990.
Print Book, English, ©1999
University College Dublin Press, Dublin, ©1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xviii, 4098 pages ; 24 cm
9781900621236, 1900621231
1120799525
Survey of the work, language, literature and politics, liminality, splitting and the gap, memory and space. Part I Private conversation; the landscape painter; the short stories. Part II Public address: plays of love; plays of freedom. Part III Politics: a field day; plays of language and time. Part IV Music: plays of beyond; magic. Appendix: Brian Friel and George Steiner.
Originally published: Brian Friel and Ireland's drama. 1st ed. London : Routledge, 1990