caa a22 4500 378884379 CHVBK 20180305123439.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e200407 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/zaa.2004.52.3.243 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/zaa.2004.52.3.243 Wehrmann Jürgen Irish Tradition or Postdramatic Innovation? Storytelling in Contemporary Irish Plays [Elektronische Daten] [Jürgen Wehrmann] Storytelling in Irish drama has traditionally been perceived as evidence for a continuity between Irish theatre and a pre-modern, distinctly Irish oral culture. Hans-Thies Lehmann's theory of Postdramatic Theatre, however, allows one to describe the exhibition of the act of narration in contemporary Irish plays as a break with both Epic Theatre and the drama of the Irish Literary Revival. In contrast with the alienation effects of Epic Theatre, contemporary Irish theatre texts create intense relation-ships between narrator and story on the one hand and between narrator and audience on the other. Yet the acts of narration also differ from those in the drama of the Irish Literary Revival in that oral storytelling takes the form of intimate confessions and focusses not on collective but individual memory. At the same time, the Irish example casts a critical light on some of Lehmann's concepts, particularly the avantgarde character of the so-called ‘post-epic' narration and its inherent criticism of the mass media. © 2014 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik De Gruyter 52/3(2004-07), 243-256 52:3<243 2004 52 zaa https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa.2004.52.3.243 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa.2004.52.3.243 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wehrmann Jürgen NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik De Gruyter 52/3(2004-07), 243-256 52:3<243 2004 52 zaa CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter