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  1. Frank Confessions
    Author: Maher, Eamon
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Ltd, Oxford ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    This book aims to redress the critical neglect of Frank McCourt’s life-writing, which has been dismissed all too frequently as «misery memoir» and deemed commercially driven or aesthetically and politically naïve. It reassesses the life cycle of... more

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    This book aims to redress the critical neglect of Frank McCourt’s life-writing, which has been dismissed all too frequently as «misery memoir» and deemed commercially driven or aesthetically and politically naïve. It reassesses the life cycle of McCourt’s work, investigating the experiences that shaped his desire to write and demonstrating a nuanced and multifaceted network of stimuli and references. This new approach reimagines McCourt’s work as a series of complex constructions that are inherently performative in nature (including the multiple identities that he assigns himself) and draw on recurrent clichés and stereotypical characters formed from a medley of literary, theatrical, cinematic and popular performance traditions. The author uncovers reference points, intertexts and sources that McCourt appropriates from the Irish language tradition, storytelling, nationalistic songs, the popular music of New York City, the films of Hollywood, other memoirs, Joycean literature, melodrama and theatre. This dynamic has been recognized by other performance practitioners, and the book also explores how McCourt’s life-writing has inspired creative adaptations for stage and screen.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Eaton, Margaret
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781787071841
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    DDC Categories: 810
    Edition: 1st, New ed.
    Series: Reimagining Ireland ; 78
    Subjects: Biografische Literatur
    Other subjects: McCourt, Frank (1930-2009)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  2. Frank Confessions
    Performance in the Life-Writings of Frank McCourt
    Author: Eaton, Margaret
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers, Oxford

    This book aims to redress the critical neglect of Frank McCourt’s life-writing, which has been dismissed all too frequently as «misery memoir» and deemed commercially driven or aesthetically and politically naïve. It reassesses the life cycle of... more

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    This book aims to redress the critical neglect of Frank McCourt’s life-writing, which has been dismissed all too frequently as «misery memoir» and deemed commercially driven or aesthetically and politically naïve. It reassesses the life cycle of McCourt’s work, investigating the experiences that shaped his desire to write and demonstrating a nuanced and multifaceted network of stimuli and references. This new approach reimagines McCourt’s work as a series of complex constructions that are inherently performative in nature (including the multiple identities that he assigns himself) and draw on recurrent clichés and stereotypical characters formed from a medley of literary, theatrical, cinematic and popular performance traditions. The author uncovers reference points, intertexts and sources that McCourt appropriates from the Irish language tradition, storytelling, nationalistic songs, the popular music of New York City, the films of Hollywood, other memoirs, Joycean literature, melodrama and theatre. This dynamic has been recognized by other performance practitioners, and the book also explores how McCourt’s life-writing has inspired creative adaptations for stage and screen CONTENTS: Curtain Rise: Locating the «Father of the Misery Memoir» – «I’d Love To Be Irish When It’s Time For A Song» – «Are ye Gangsters or Cowboys? […] Fred Astaire How Are You?»: The Effect of Hollywood Cinema on Frank McCourt’s Irish-American Male Identity – Melodramatic Moments: McCourt’s Debt to Dion Boucicault and Seán O’Casey – Frank McCourt’s Performance of «Irishness»: The Anxiety of James Joyce’s Influence? – The After-Lives of Angela’s Ashes – Curtain Fall

     
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    Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781787071841
    Other identifier:
    9781787071841
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Series: Reimagining Ireland ; 78
    Subjects: McCourt, Frank; Biografische Literatur; ; McCourt, Frank; Biografische Literatur;
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 284 Seiten)
  3. Frank Confessions
    Performance in the Life-Writings of Frank McCourt
    Author: Eaton, Margaret
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers, Oxford

    This book aims to redress the critical neglect of Frank McCourt’s life-writing, which has been dismissed all too frequently as «misery memoir» and deemed commercially driven or aesthetically and politically naïve. It reassesses the life cycle of... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    This book aims to redress the critical neglect of Frank McCourt’s life-writing, which has been dismissed all too frequently as «misery memoir» and deemed commercially driven or aesthetically and politically naïve. It reassesses the life cycle of McCourt’s work, investigating the experiences that shaped his desire to write and demonstrating a nuanced and multifaceted network of stimuli and references. This new approach reimagines McCourt’s work as a series of complex constructions that are inherently performative in nature (including the multiple identities that he assigns himself) and draw on recurrent clichés and stereotypical characters formed from a medley of literary, theatrical, cinematic and popular performance traditions. The author uncovers reference points, intertexts and sources that McCourt appropriates from the Irish language tradition, storytelling, nationalistic songs, the popular music of New York City, the films of Hollywood, other memoirs, Joycean literature, melodrama and theatre. This dynamic has been recognized by other performance practitioners, and the book also explores how McCourt’s life-writing has inspired creative adaptations for stage and screen CONTENTS: Curtain Rise: Locating the «Father of the Misery Memoir» – «I’d Love To Be Irish When It’s Time For A Song» – «Are ye Gangsters or Cowboys? […] Fred Astaire How Are You?»: The Effect of Hollywood Cinema on Frank McCourt’s Irish-American Male Identity – Melodramatic Moments: McCourt’s Debt to Dion Boucicault and Seán O’Casey – Frank McCourt’s Performance of «Irishness»: The Anxiety of James Joyce’s Influence? – The After-Lives of Angela’s Ashes – Curtain Fall

     
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    Content information
    Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781787071841
    Other identifier:
    9781787071841
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Series: Reimagining Ireland ; 78
    Subjects: McCourt, Frank; Biografische Literatur; ; McCourt, Frank; Biografische Literatur;
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 284 Seiten)
  4. Frank Confessions
    Performance in the Life-Writings of Frank McCourt
    Author: Eaton, Margaret
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers, Oxford

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