{"product_id":"bloody-living","title":"Bloody Living","description":"This 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.","brand":"Verlag Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54231854514520,"sku":"9783039119646","price":62.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783039119646.jpg?v=1777181449","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/bloody-living","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}