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Frank Confessions; Performance in the Life-Writings of Frank McCourt

by Margaret Eaton
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781906165611
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Peter Lang UK
  • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang UK
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 284
  • Original Price: USD 75.2
  • Language: English
  • Edition: New ed
  • Item Weight: 409 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

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.

Margaret Eaton was educated at the University of Derby and the University of Nottingham. Her research interests include Irish memoir, melodrama and the representation of Irish national identity in literature and film.

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