Helen Lojek
Biographic Data
| ID | 1047044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Lojek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Lojek |
| SIGNATURE | LOJEK H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boise State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Negotiating Differences in the Plays of Frank McGuinness
The career of the playwright Frank McGuinness encapsulates the trajectory of identity politics in Ireland since the mid-1980s. McGuiness first achieved major recognition for Observe the Sons of Ulster in 1985, a play by a Catholic playwright exploring the Ulster Unionist psyche and a continuum of male relationships from the homosexual to the homosocial. This play set the template for McGuinness’ future work, in which characters cross the expected…
The Spaces of Irish Drama
Lojek provides extensive analysis of space in plays by living Irish playwrights, applying practical understandings of staging and the insights of geographers and spatial theorists to drama in an era i
The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel
Brian Friel is widely recognized as Ireland's greatest living playwright, winning an international reputation through such acclaimed works as Translations (1980) and Dancing at Lughnasa (1990). This 2006 collection of specially commissioned essays includes contributions from leading commentators on Friel's work (including two fellow playwrights) and explores the entire range of his career from his 1964 breakthrough with Philadelphia, Here I Come!…
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama
The essays in this collection cover the whole range of Irish drama from the late nineteenth-century melodramas which anticipated the rise of the Abbey Theatre to the contemporary Dublin of theatre festivals. A team of international experts from Ireland, the UK, the USA and Europe provide individual studies of internationally known playwrights of the period of the Literary Revival - Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, Shaw, Wilde, O'Casey - and contempora…
A Clown in a Grave”
Book Review| December 01 2000 “A Clown in a Grave”: Complexities and Tensions in the Works of Gregory Corso By Michael Skau. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 1999. x, 233 pp. $34.95. Helen Lojek Helen Lojek Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 881–882. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-881 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site…
Thoreau's Bog People
T is not necessary to go to the history books to gain a sense of the impact of Irish immigration on the Massachusetts world in which Henry David Thoreau was so widely traveled. Many of the 1.7 million Irish who became Irish Americans in the twenty years before the Civil War settled near Boston, where the Irishborn population swelled from one in fifty in 1845 to one in five in 1855.' These immigrants appear regularly in the pages of Thoreau's form…
Seeding new writing, seeking more analysis
American Drama from the Colonial Period Through World War I
Brian Friel's Plays and George Steiner's Linguistics
A Map of Mexico City Blues
Melville & Turner
Pilgrims to the Wild
Pilgrims to the Wild a survey of American writers who have responded to their encounters with the natural world. Ranging in its treatment from Thoreau s important but neglected essay, 'Walking, ' to the exuberant letters of the young artist Everett Ruess (who disappeared in the Escalante canyonlands), this is a broadly based exploration that brings to bear Eastern and Western classical philosophy, as well as contemporary critical theory, on a dis…
The Spaces of Irish Drama
Lojek provides extensive analysis of space in plays by living Irish playwrights, applying practical understandings of staging and the insights of geographers and spatial theorists to drama in an era i
A Map of Mexico City Blues
Melville & Turner
Pilgrims to the Wild
Pilgrims to the Wild a survey of American writers who have responded to their encounters with the natural world. Ranging in its treatment from Thoreau s important but neglected essay, 'Walking, ' to the exuberant letters of the young artist Everett Ruess (who disappeared in the Escalante canyonlands), this is a broadly based exploration that brings to bear Eastern and Western classical philosophy, as well as contemporary critical theory, on a dis…
Thoreau's Bog People
T is not necessary to go to the history books to gain a sense of the impact of Irish immigration on the Massachusetts world in which Henry David Thoreau was so widely traveled. Many of the 1.7 million Irish who became Irish Americans in the twenty years before the Civil War settled near Boston, where the Irishborn population swelled from one in fifty in 1845 to one in five in 1855.' These immigrants appear regularly in the pages of Thoreau's form…
Seeding new writing, seeking more analysis
American Drama from the Colonial Period Through World War I
Brian Friel's Plays and George Steiner's Linguistics
A Clown in a Grave”
Book Review| December 01 2000 “A Clown in a Grave”: Complexities and Tensions in the Works of Gregory Corso By Michael Skau. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 1999. x, 233 pp. $34.95. Helen Lojek Helen Lojek Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 881–882. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-881 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site…
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama
The essays in this collection cover the whole range of Irish drama from the late nineteenth-century melodramas which anticipated the rise of the Abbey Theatre to the contemporary Dublin of theatre festivals. A team of international experts from Ireland, the UK, the USA and Europe provide individual studies of internationally known playwrights of the period of the Literary Revival - Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, Shaw, Wilde, O'Casey - and contempora…
The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel
Brian Friel is widely recognized as Ireland's greatest living playwright, winning an international reputation through such acclaimed works as Translations (1980) and Dancing at Lughnasa (1990). This 2006 collection of specially commissioned essays includes contributions from leading commentators on Friel's work (including two fellow playwrights) and explores the entire range of his career from his 1964 breakthrough with Philadelphia, Here I Come!…
The Spaces of Irish Drama
Lojek provides extensive analysis of space in plays by living Irish playwrights, applying practical understandings of staging and the insights of geographers and spatial theorists to drama in an era i
Negotiating Differences in the Plays of Frank McGuinness
The career of the playwright Frank McGuinness encapsulates the trajectory of identity politics in Ireland since the mid-1980s. McGuiness first achieved major recognition for Observe the Sons of Ulster in 1985, a play by a Catholic playwright exploring the Ulster Unionist psyche and a continuum of male relationships from the homosexual to the homosocial. This play set the template for McGuinness’ future work, in which characters cross the expected…
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