{"product_id":"bloody-living-the-loss-of-selfhood-in-the-plays-of-marina-carr-9783039119646","title":"Bloody Living: The Loss of Selfhood in the Plays","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book deals with the process of negotiation with the past in the present through the plays of Marina Carr. The title frames the work, connoting the path towards destruction and the sense of lethargy acquired along the way. The book offers an in-depth and extensive reading of Carr’s plays. In doing so, it surveys some of the destructive issues represented in the works and provides a series of social and cultural contexts to which the concerns in the works are related.\u003cbr\u003e Carr is best known for her trilogy, \u003ci\u003eThe Mai\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePortia Coughlan\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBy the Bog of Cats…\u003c\/i\u003e, and more recently \u003ci\u003eWoman and Scarecrow\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Cordelia Dream\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMarble\u003c\/i\u003e. The plays are regularly concerned with notions of identity in the context of self-destruction, self-estrangement and displacement. This book applies Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to Carr’s plays in an effort to structure the loss the author identifies in the works. Themes of memory, history and myth are examined in the context of these concerns in provocative and confrontational ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Unnatural Blood - The Early Plays, \u003ci\u003eUllaloo\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLow in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e, the foundations of abjection, also discussed in \u003ci\u003eWoman and Scarecrow\u003c\/i\u003e – Coagulated Blood, Congealed Blood, Mixed Blood - Abjection and the role of the mother, Cultural memory and history in the context of Carr’s trilogy – The One Blood - Incest – Streaked Blood - Destructive genealogy – Sacrificial Blood - \u003ci\u003eAriel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Cordelia Dream\u003c\/i\u003e - crossings internalised in corporeal, psychic and abject ways. \u003ci\u003eMarble\u003c\/i\u003e - managing loss, melancholic boundaries of negotiation.","brand":"Verlag Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043746218327,"sku":"9783039119646","price":44.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bloody-living-the-loss-of-selfhood-in-the-plays-of-marina-carr-9783039119646","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}