{"title":"Brendan Behan and the Irish Language: A Reconsideration","authors":"Brian Ó Conchubhair","doi":"10.14712/2571452x.2024.67.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14712/2571452x.2024.67.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36301,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Pragensia","volume":" 98","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141680592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rowdy and Rough: Brendan Behan Sings Songs from The Hostage","authors":"David Livingstone","doi":"10.14712/2571452x.2024.67.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14712/2571452x.2024.67.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36301,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Pragensia","volume":" 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141678698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The most cooperative of writers”: Brendan Behan’s Collaboration with Carolyn Swift on The Quare Fellow","authors":"James Little","doi":"10.14712/2571452x.2024.67.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14712/2571452x.2024.67.8","url":null,"abstract":": Brendan Behan was a writer for whom collaboration was a central part of the creative process. His work for the inherently social art of theatre thus provides a fascinating case study through which to examine collaborative textual geneses, particularly when there is an archival trail that enables us to analyse these collaborations. Building on the recent turn in genetic criticism towards the study of collaborative creative processes, this article draws on the recently acquired papers, at the University of Galway, of Pike Theatre co-founder Carolyn Swift, who was central to the editing of Behan’s plays for performance. Focusing on drafts of The Quare Fellow (first staged 1954), the essay shows that Swift deleted multiple instances of violent language from Behan’s manuscript, suggesting that the play’s violence was censored by this key collaborator. Bringing the tools of genetic criticism to bear on Behan’s theatre work demonstrates the significance of Swift’s role in Behan’s collaborative creative practice and the centrality of collaboration to his aesthetic. In conclusion, the article calls for a revised reader’s edition of Behan’s plays which would take into account the collaborative nature of his theatre work.","PeriodicalId":36301,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Pragensia","volume":" 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141678542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brendan Behan: A Late Modernist Writer Engagé in Postwar Paris","authors":"Deirdre McMahon","doi":"10.14712/2571452x.2024.67.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14712/2571452x.2024.67.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36301,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Pragensia","volume":" 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141678779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A splendid figure of revolting womanhood”: The Women of Brendan Behan’s Short Fiction","authors":"Nathalie Lamprecht","doi":"10.14712/2571452x.2024.67.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14712/2571452x.2024.67.6","url":null,"abstract":": Following Patricia Coughlan’s prompt to question representations of women in the writing of male authors, this article sets out to analyse the representations of women in the work of Brendan Behan, more specifically his short fiction. As a working-class writer, the issue of the portrayal of his own neighbourhood and community quickly emerged as a central concern for Behan. As Michael Pierse has argued, within the oppressed group of the Dublin working class, it was women who were most at odds with the status-quo, suffering double marginalisation through both gender and class. When looking at Behan’s depictions of women in his short stories, no straightforward conclusions may be drawn. Behan can hardly be classified as a feminist writer, but he treats most of his female characters with similar empathy as he does his male characters, allowing them the capacity to be anything from self-denying saints to “screwy bitches.” Some of his stories are written in homage to the women who raised him, others seem to criticise a society that victimises them.","PeriodicalId":36301,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Pragensia","volume":" 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141678310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Gael an Taobh Thuaidh”: The Irish Language in Brendan Behan’s Journalistic Writing","authors":"Radvan Markus","doi":"10.14712/2571452x.2024.67.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14712/2571452x.2024.67.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36301,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Pragensia","volume":" 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141678656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Literature and the Hack”: Brendan Behan and the Newspapers","authors":"John Brannigan","doi":"10.14712/2571452x.2024.67.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14712/2571452x.2024.67.2","url":null,"abstract":": Between 1951 and 1956, Brendan Behan published more than one hundred articles in The Irish Press newspaper, which have now been collected into a single volume, A Bit of a Writer: Brendan Behan’s Collected Short Prose . The collection augments the critical appreciation of Behan’s talents as a writer, but it also raises important questions for the late modernist period of writing, about the relationship between “Literature,” as a distinct and valued art form","PeriodicalId":36301,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Pragensia","volume":" 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141678496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Irony, Trauma, and Compassion: Brendan Behan’s and Maeve Brennan’s Mid-century Short Prose","authors":"Klára Witzany Hutková","doi":"10.14712/2571452x.2024.67.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14712/2571452x.2024.67.7","url":null,"abstract":": Born only a few years apart, Brendan Behan (1923) and Maeve Brennan (1917) were children of independent Ireland, raised by Republican families on the opposite banks of the Liffey. Although they probably never met – in Dublin or New York – there are fascinating parallels, as well as contrasts, in their biographies and in their writing. This article compares Behan’s and Brennan’s life-writing short prose, published predominantly in The Irish Press (1951-1957) and The New Yorker ( c . 1950s-1960s), respectively. Brennan’s contributions to the “Talk of the Town” column under the pseudonym The Long-Winded Lady, as well as a few other autobiographical pieces, are analysed as a counterpart to Behan’s Irish Press column. The essay focuses on three common areas in the selected writing: irony as Brennan’s and Behan’s response to their positions of a female and working-class writer, respectively, their revisiting of personal and collective memories of traumatic moments in modern Irish history, and a socially aware and compassionate chronicling of the lives of ordinary people.","PeriodicalId":36301,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Pragensia","volume":" 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141678297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Literary Form and Coastal Sublimity in Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest","authors":"Roslyn Irving","doi":"10.14712/2571452x.2023.66.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14712/2571452x.2023.66.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36301,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Pragensia","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139815580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}