ransformations within (Existentialist) Invariance in Ariel by Marina Carr with Reference to John Millington Synge’s Riders to the Sea

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35765/pk.2024.4502.16
Keywords: Carr, Marina; Synge, John Millington, Ariel, Riders to the Sea, comparison, invariance, existentialism

Abstract

This article is a comparative analysis of Marina Carr’s Ariel (2002) and John Millington Synge’s Riders to the Sea. The main research context comes from common critical treatments of Carr’s oeuvre within the scope of Synge’s influences. The plays discussed in this essay have not been subject to comparative studies before (to the best of the author’s knowledge). The main argument consists in examining the loci of invariance and their transformations with reference to themes, characters’ roles, and their relationships, which will be compared in terms of notions of necessity, generational suffering, reliance on the worldly, and death in the unknown realm, partly treated within existentialism.

Author Biography

Grzegorz Koneczniak, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

Assistant Professor in the Department of American Literature and Literary Translation, Faculty of Humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. His research interests include postcolonial literatures, postcolonial theatre, and editorial studies. He is the author of Women on Stage and the Decolonisation of Ireland. Counter­Discursiveness in the Drama of the Irish Literary Revival (1892–1926) and a book in Polish on the history of Canadian drama and theatre. He has also written Prompting In/Ex/Tensions inside the Manuscript and the Digital Folio: An Exploration of Selected Early Abbey Theatre Production Books. His recent book is Building (in) the Promised Land: Postcolonial Biblical Readings into Contemporary Irish Drama.

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Published
2024-03-12
How to Cite
[1]
Koneczniak, G. 2024. ransformations within (Existentialist) Invariance in Ariel by Marina Carr with Reference to John Millington Synge’s Riders to the Sea. Perspectives on Culture. 45, 2 (Mar. 2024), 213-230. DOI:https://doi.org/10.35765/pk.2024.4502.16.
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Vol. 45 No. 2 (2024): Transformations: Time in Culture, Literature, and Language
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Transformations within Time: the Individual

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