Cooking Texas Style: A Heritage of Traditional Recipes

Cooking Texas Style: A Heritage of Traditional Recipes
ISBN-10
0292710828
ISBN-13
9780292710825
Category
Cooking / Regional & Ethnic / American / Southern States
Pages
193
Language
English
Published
1983
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Authors
Candy Wagner, Sandra Marquez

Description

The dramatic career of the Irish playwright J.M. Synge, from his first plays in 1902 to his premature death in 1909, almost exactly coincided with the years of Edward VII's reign. Those years have long been studied in a British context, but Synge and Edwardian Ireland is the first book to

explore the cultural life of Edwardian Ireland as a distinctive period. By emphasizing several less familiar Irish contexts for Synge's work - including a new sociological awareness, the rise of a localcelebrity culture, an international theatre context, the arts and crafts movement, Irish

classical music, and comedic writing by Somerville and Ross - this collection shows how the Revival's preoccupation with folk culture intersected with the new networks of mass communication in the late imperial world.



Although Synge is best known as a dramatist, this book concentrates on his prose and the ethnography of his photographs, the work in which his engagement with Edwardian Ireland can be mostsignificantly seen. Often misunderstood as apolitical, Synge's writings and photography display a romantic

resistance to modernity alongside their more accurate observations of contemporary conditions. It is through this ambivalent modernity that his work continued to haunt not just advocates like W.B. Yeats but even Synge's critics, including Padraig Pearse and James Joyce, all of whom were forced to

come to imaginative terms with Synge through their own work.



This book aims to change readers' sense of Synge's significance, and by doing so to illuminate in a quite new way the era of Edwardian Ireland during this period of rapid modernization.

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