‘The Cries of Pagan Desperation’: Synge, Riders to the Sea and the discontents of historical time
This essay considers Synge’s staging of the caoine (keen) in Riders to the Sea(1904). It argues that the caoine in Riders to the Sea is not simply an aesthetic and unethical fetishization of pre-Christian cultural residue predicated on class insecurity, but a performance philosophy of modernity. Syn...
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Carysfort Press
2014
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32386/ |