'Experienc'd Age knows what for Youth is fit'?: Generational and Familial Conflict in British and Irish Drama and Theatre Contributor(s): Bronk-Bacon, Katarzyna (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1788741625 ISBN-13: 9781788741620 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $108.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Psychology |
Dewey: 822.009 |
LCCN: 2018033348 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.30 lbs) 342 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Over the centuries, drama has been an influential and imaginative medium for presenting, analysing and offering ways of resolving real or fictional battles. This volume provides readers with a timely study of inter-generational conflicts and crises as seen through the eyes of male and female British and Irish playwrights from the medieval period to the twenty-first century. The contributions suggest that at the heart of inter-generational discord lies various crises between (the) age(d) and youth or, more generally, the idea of what is old and new . The interaction and co-existence of age and youth in their embodied, symbolic or conceptual forms is the topic of this volume. The collection is built around the words age(d) / young , which denote both the biological age of the characters and the more conceptual potential of these terms. Ultimately, the contributors to this collection of essays analyse not only the idea of inter-generationality within selected dramatic works but also inter-generational conflicts seen in clashes of cultures, artistic visions, concepts and aesthetic idea(l)s. |