<i>The Shadow of the Glen</i> and <i>Riders to the Sea</i>

Frawley, Oona

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“…In this book, Mattar (2004) claims, Synge dwells on the islanders' oneness with nature (142). Oona Frawley (2009), likewise, states that Aran provided first-hand experience of the sea's ruthlessness and the constant negotiation with weather that curagh-travel demanded. Synge (1992) repeatedly notes the threat of drowning in The Aran Islands, and variously experiences exhilaration, terror and profound dejection -all aspects of the sublime -in the face of churning sea.…”

Section: Agency Of the Sea In Synge's Playmentioning

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Agentic Power of the Sea in John Millington Synge’s Riders to the Sea

Vural¹

2017

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One-act play of John Millington Synge (1871Synge ( -1909 Riders to the Sea (1904) is about the life in the Aran Islands, power of nature and death. While the life endowed with the sea determines the fate of Irish islanders, their dependence on the water surrounding the Aran Islands brings death, too. The sea both provides life and causes death in the play. However, agency of the sea is not just bound to this dualistic nature in Synge's work. The vision of the mother Maurya about the deaths of her two sons, Michael and Bartley, upon the sea evidences that agentic power of the water is not only affiliated with its ontological presence, but also its epistemological capacity which is about the narrative ability of matter. This paper sets out to scrutinise agency of the sea in Synge's Riders to the Sea in terms of material ecocriticism and new materialisms.

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Section: Agency Of the Sea In Synge's Playmentioning

confidence: 99%