Cover of Brian Friel's (Post)Colonial Drama: Language, Illusion, and Politics

Brian Friel's (Post)Colonial Drama: Language, Illusion, and Politics

Drawing on the theory and techniques of the major post-colonial critics, this text offers an interpretation of Brian Friel's texts and his place in the tradition of linguistic idealism in Irish literature.

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adult
Length
medium · 312 pages

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