'A disoriented vision of … fact': Brian Friel, Francis Bacon, and Faith Healer. Issue 2 (November 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'A disoriented vision of … fact': Brian Friel, Francis Bacon, and Faith Healer. Issue 2 (November 2020)
- Main Title:
- 'A disoriented vision of … fact': Brian Friel, Francis Bacon, and Faith Healer
- Authors:
- Kuczyńska, Zosia
- Abstract:
- Abstract : The Brian Friel Papers at the NLI reveal a long and relatively unexplored history of major and minor influences on Friel's plays. As the archive attests, these influences manifest themselves in ways that range from the superficial to the deeply structural. In this article, I draw on original archival research into the composition process of Friel's genre-defining play Faith Healer (1979) to bring to light a model of influence that operates at the level of artistic practice. Specifically, I examine the extent to which Friel's officially unacknowledged encounter with a book of interviews with painter Francis Bacon influenced the play in terms of character, language, and form. I suggest that Bacon's creative process – incorporating his ideas on the role of the artist, the workings of chance, and the extent to which art does violence to fact – may have had a major influence on both the play's development and on Friel's development as an artist.
- Is Part Of:
- Irish university review. Volume 50:Issue 2(2020)
- Journal:
- Irish university review
- Issue:
- Volume 50:Issue 2(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 50, Issue 2 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 50
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0050-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 319
- Page End:
- 336
- Publication Date:
- 2020-11
- Subjects:
- Brian Friel -- Francis Bacon -- Faith Healer -- archives -- process
Ireland -- Civilization -- Periodicals
English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
Irish literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
820.99415 - Journal URLs:
- http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/1/1/1/purl=rc18%5fITOF%5F0%5F%5Fjn+%22Irish+University+Review%3a+a+journal+of+Irish+Studies%22 ↗
http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/iur ↗
http://www.jstor.org/journals/00211427.html ↗
http://www.euppublishing.com/journals ↗ - DOI:
- 10.3366/iur.2020.0473 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0021-1427
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- Legaldeposit
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