PREFACE............................................................. 5 Honor O'Connor Divining Stories: Underground Water in the Short Stories of Brian Friel................................. 7 Giovanna Tallone Restless Wanderers and Great Pretenders: Brian Friel's Fox Melarkey and Frank Hardy......................... 25 Michael Parker Forms of Redress: Structure and Characterization in Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City........................... 47 Gerald FitzGibbon Interpreting Between Privacies: Brian Friel and the Boundaries of Language......................... 71 Christopher Murray Palimpsest: Two Languages as One in Brian Friel's Translations..... 85 Márton Mesterházi The Hungarian Translator's View of Brian Friel's Translations and the Problems in Translating it into Hungarian.................. 97 Richard Allen Cave Questing for Ritual and Ceremony in a Godforsaken World: Dancing at Lughnasa and Wonderful Tennessee....................... 109 Csilla Bertha and Donald E. Morse Singing of Human Unsuccess: The Artist in Brian Friel's Give Me Your Answer, Do!.............. 127 Ruth Neil Disability as Motif and Meaning in Friel's Drama.................. 143 Joseph Swann Theology as Cultural Parameter: Sign and Meaning in Four Contemporary Irish Poets.................................. 161 Philip Tew The Lexicon of Youth in Mac Laverty, Bolger, and Doyle: Theorizing Contemporary Irish Fiction via Lefebvre's Tenth Prelude........... 181 Deborah Cottreau Matriarchy Ascending: The Feminist Mytho-Poetics of Anne Devlin's After Easter...................................................... 199 Mária Kurdi New Strangers in the House? Immigrants and Natives in Donal O'Kelly's Asylum! Asylum! and John Barrett's Borrowed Robes....... 225 BOOK REVIEWS Friel, Brian. Molly Sweeney - Leben ein Tanz - Zwischen allen Sprachen - Antworte mir by Jochen Achilles. ...................... 241 Kurdi, Mária. Nemzeti önszemlélet a mai ír drámában. 1960-1990. [National Self-portrait in Contemporary Irish Drama. 1960-1990.] by Péter Egri..................................................... 243 Responding with Deeds: The 1996 Irish Drama Issue of the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 2.2 (1996) by Ondrej Pilný................................................... 247 Robert Tracy. The Unappeasable Host by Marie Arndt................ 252 Fallon, Brian. An Age of Innocence: Irish Culture 1930-1960 and Smyth, Gerry. Decolonisation and Criticism by Marie Arndt......... 255 Mishkin, Tracy, ed. Literary Influence and African-American Writers: Collected Essays by Ágnes Surányi........................ 259 Senn, Fritz. Inductive Scrutinies: Focus on Joyce by Marianna Gula................................... 262 Hurtley, Jacqueline, Rosa González, Inés Praga, and Esther Aliga. Ireland in Writing: Interviews with Writers and Academics by Mária Kurdi.................................................... 265 MacKenna, Dolores. William Trevor: The Writer and His Work by Virginia Mack.................................................. 268 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS............................................. 270
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