Publication Information

{'id': 'https://openalex.org/W2512631446', 'doi': None, 'title': 'Frank Confessions: Performance in the Life-Writings of Frank McCourt', 'display_name': 'Frank Confessions: Performance in the Life-Writings of Frank McCourt', 'publication_year': 2016, 'publication_date': '2016-11-24', 'ids': {'openalex': 'https://openalex.org/W2512631446', 'mag': '2512631446'}, 'language': 'en', 'primary_location': {'is_oa': False, 'landing_page_url': 'http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32917/', 'pdf_url': None, 'source': None, 'license': None, 'license_id': None, 'version': None, 'is_accepted': False, 'is_published': False}, 'type': 'book', 'type_crossref': 'book', 'indexed_in': [], 'open_access': {'is_oa': False, 'oa_status': 'closed', 'oa_url': None, 'any_repository_has_fulltext': False}, 'authorships': [{'author_position': 'first', 'author': {'id': 'https://openalex.org/A5029616839', 'display_name': 'Margaret Mary Catherine Eaton', 'orcid': None}, 'institutions': [], 'countries': [], 'is_corresponding': True, 'raw_author_name': 'Margaret Mary Catherine Eaton', 'raw_affiliation_strings': [], 'affiliations': []}], 'institution_assertions': [], 'countries_distinct_count': 0, 'institutions_distinct_count': 0, 'corresponding_author_ids': ['https://openalex.org/A5029616839'], 'corresponding_institution_ids': [], 'apc_list': None, 'apc_paid': None, 'fwci': 0.0, 'has_fulltext': False, 'cited_by_count': 0, 'citation_normalized_percentile': {'value': 0.0, 'is_in_top_1_percent': False, 'is_in_top_10_percent': False}, 'cited_by_percentile_year': {'min': 0, 'max': 66}, 'biblio': {'volume': None, 'issue': None, 'first_page': None, 'last_page': None}, 'is_retracted': False, 'is_paratext': False, 'primary_topic': {'id': 'https://openalex.org/T11776', 'display_name': 'Irish and British Studies', 'score': 0.9838, 'subfield': {'id': 'https://openalex.org/subfields/3312', 'display_name': 'Sociology and Political Science'}, 'field': {'id': 'https://openalex.org/fields/33', 'display_name': 'Social Sciences'}, 'domain': {'id': 'https://openalex.org/domains/2', 'display_name': 'Social Sciences'}}, 'topics': [{'id': 'https://openalex.org/T11776', 'display_name': 'Irish and British Studies', 'score': 0.9838, 'subfield': {'id': 'https://openalex.org/subfields/3312', 'display_name': 'Sociology and Political Science'}, 'field': {'id': 'https://openalex.org/fields/33', 'display_name': 'Social Sciences'}, 'domain': {'id': 'https://openalex.org/domains/2', 'display_name': 'Social Sciences'}}], 'keywords': [], 'concepts': [{'id': 'https://openalex.org/C142362112', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735', 'display_name': 'Art', 'level': 0, 'score': 0.53214926}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C554144382', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213156', 'display_name': 'Performance art', 'level': 2, 'score': 0.48333094}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C52119013', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50637', 'display_name': 'Art history', 'level': 1, 'score': 0.4192757}], 'mesh': [], 'locations_count': 1, 'locations': [{'is_oa': False, 'landing_page_url': 'http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32917/', 'pdf_url': None, 'source': None, 'license': None, 'license_id': None, 'version': None, 'is_accepted': False, 'is_published': False}], 'best_oa_location': None, 'sustainable_development_goals': [], 'grants': [], 'datasets': [], 'versions': [], 'referenced_works_count': 0, 'referenced_works': [], 'related_works': ['https://openalex.org/W82351622', 'https://openalex.org/W64021398', 'https://openalex.org/W570657220', 'https://openalex.org/W51676088', 'https://openalex.org/W318661594', 'https://openalex.org/W2911884512', 'https://openalex.org/W2801259234', 'https://openalex.org/W2781774023', 'https://openalex.org/W2763938921', 'https://openalex.org/W2604691157', 'https://openalex.org/W2530386428', 'https://openalex.org/W2217481167', 'https://openalex.org/W2187023848', 'https://openalex.org/W2113816552', 'https://openalex.org/W2021764644', 'https://openalex.org/W2017810803', 'https://openalex.org/W1987978630', 'https://openalex.org/W1574463644', 'https://openalex.org/W1547798702', 'https://openalex.org/W1508703221'], 'abstract_inverted_index': {'This': [0], 'thesis': [1, 52, 98, 304, 466], 'focuses': [2], 'on': [3, 921, 954], 'the': [4, 16, 31, 38, 41, 51, 58, 75, 91, 94, 108, 137, 161, 182, 185, 218, 251, 289, 296, 299, 303, 320, 341, 352, 421, 437, 453, 461, 484, 491, 501, 504, 507, 510, 519, 537, 552, 555, 565, 581, 607, 610, 647, 669, 686, 689, 693, 698, 716, 789, 793, 821, 824, 837, 840, 858, 867, 890, 895, 922, 941, 945], 'work': [5, 699, 736, 896], 'of': [6, 28, 40, 60, 88, 93, 111, 127, 129, 142, 146, 149, 169, 194, 201, 236, 254, 298, 319, 349, 399, 404, 416, 445, 457, 477, 488, 503, 509, 515, 523, 554, 577, 584, 589, 623, 640, 688, 692, 700, 764, 781, 792, 861, 866, 897, 918, 932, 944, 957, 976, 984, 993, 999], 'Frank': [7], 'McCourt,': [8], 'a': [9, 25, 54, 147, 167, 196, 223, 234, 247, 282, 347, 373, 391, 443, 475, 498, 620, 638, 664, 729, 779, 846, 877, 955, 974, 991, 997, 1003], 'writer': [10, 665, 1006], 'who': [11, 666], 'came': [12], 'to': [13, 73, 116, 159, 244, 276, 281, 309, 388, 409, 439, 451, 472, 549, 551, 561, 564, 630, 652, 654, 662, 752, 754, 767, 787, 844, 854, 879, 947, 1008], 'prominence': [14], 'in': [15, 30, 90, 103, 163, 206, 233, 246, 335, 426, 490, 532, 558, 571, 598, 604, 646, 650, 704, 785, 900, 914, 925], '1990s': [17], 'for': [18, 351, 385, 480, 682, 728, 849], 'writing': [19, 287, 356, 678, 875], 'best-selling': [20], 'memoirs': [21, 367], 'that': [22, 63, 77, 102, 171, 184, 188, 217, 238, 249, 272, 326, 344, 396, 432, 474, 526, 539, 572, 617, 637, 695, 759, 873, 892, 907], 'touched': [23], 'upon': [24, 85, 668, 910], 'wider': [26], 'set': [27, 956, 998], 'issues': [29], 'contemporary': [32, 566], 'cultural': [33, 140, 199, 400, 847], 'debate:': [34], 'namely': [35], 'Ireland': [36, 89, 120, 205, 263, 339], 'itself,': [37], 'status': [39], 'memoir': [42, 462], 'genre,': [43], 'and': [44, 70, 80, 131, 133, 139, 153, 177, 198, 203, 210, 259, 264, 295, 312, 323, 368, 382, 402, 434, 441, 448, 486, 494, 506, 545, 560, 642, 676, 702, 713, 733, 743, 774, 797, 831, 839, 856, 885, 903, 906, 924, 935], 'Irish-American': [45, 328, 862], 'identity.': [46], 'In': [47, 301, 354], 'five': [48], 'distinct': [49], 'chapters,': [50], 'adopts': [53, 190], 'postcolonial': [55], 'perspective': [56], 'using': [57], 'theories': [59], 'political': [61, 621], 'performance': [62, 104, 275, 481], 'have': [64, 83, 436], 'been': [65], 'created': [66], 'by': [67, 316, 376, 569, 595], 'Victor': [68], 'Merriman': [69], 'Joe': [71], 'Cleary': [72, 152], 'analyse': [74, 948], 'impact': [76], 'McCourt’s': [78, 355, 378, 458, 735, 765, 874, 930], 'life-writing': [79, 237], 'other': [81, 366], 'performances': [82, 403], 'had': [84], 'global': [86], 'impressions': [87], 'era': [92], '‘Celtic': [95], 'Tiger’.': [96], 'My': [97, 226], 'combines': [99], 'Merriman’s': [100, 154, 430], 'premise': [101], 'we': [105, 357], 'can': [106, 358], 'see': [107], 'basic': [109], 'idea': [110, 431], 'Irish': [112, 278, 311, 556, 724, 1005], 'culture': [113], 'being': [114, 327], 'resistant': [115], 'modernism': [117], 'and,': [118], 'therefore,': [119], 'never': [121], 'properly': [122], 'decolonised': [123], 'with': [124, 136, 174, 606, 778], 'Cleary’s': [125], 'notion': [126], 'disassociation': [128], 'past': [130, 502, 755], 'present': [132, 508], 'his': [134, 192, 212, 240, 286, 292, 310, 397, 673, 783, 880, 915], 'concern': [135], 'social': [138, 446], 'implications': [141], 'Ireland’s': [143, 255, 960], 'uncritical': [144], 'embrace': [145], 'form': [148], 'capitalist': [150], 'modernisation.': [151], 'key': [155], 'ideas': [156, 710], 'are': [157, 380, 842], 'reshaped': [158], 'uncover': [160], 'ways': [162], 'which': [164, 207, 377, 592, 983], 'McCourt': [165, 189, 230, 273, 307, 659, 705, 748, 816, 850, 893, 950, 977, 995], 'creates': [166], 'version': [168, 588], '‘Irishness’': [170, 265], 'is': [172, 222, 231, 644, 660, 679, 971], 'replete': [173], 'recurrent': [175], 'cliches': [176], 'stereotypical': [178], 'characters.': [179], 'I': [180, 270, 428, 535, 601, 757, 888, 967], 'make': [181, 536, 889], 'case': [183, 538, 891, 975], 'performative': [186, 455], 'model': [187], 'exposes': [191], 'purpose': [193], 'creating': [195, 672], 'national': [197], 'identity': [200, 219, 279, 325, 405], '1930s': [202], '1940s': [204], 'he': [208, 220, 332, 345, 852, 908, 986], 'reworks': [209], 'revitalises': [211], 'impoverished,': [213], 'traumatic': [214], 'childhood,': [215], 'revealing': [216], 'expresses': [221], 'conscious': [224], 'performance.': [225, 511], 'analysis': [227], 'reveals': [228, 814], 'how': [229, 306, 495, 709, 732, 744, 815, 949, 994, 1002], 'engaged': [232], 'mode': [235], 'follows': [239], 'journey': [241, 256], 'from': [242, 363, 468, 820, 959], 'boyhood': [243], 'manhood': [245], 'manner': [248], 'mirrors': [250], 'parallel': [252], 'process': [253, 639], 'into': [257, 685], 'independence': [258], 'economic': [260], 'prosperity': [261], 'when': [262, 407, 671, 747, 851], 'became': [266], 'desirable': [267], 'commodities.': [268], 'Throughout,': [269], 'argue': [271, 602, 758], 'utilises': [274], 'market': [277], 'successfully': [280], 'mass': [283], 'readership': [284], 'since': [285], 'reinforces': [288], 'connection': [290], 'between': [291, 500], 'life': [293], 'experience': [294], 'narrative': [297, 505, 794], 'nation.': [300], 'turn,': [302], 'uncovers': [305], 'appeals': [308], 'American': [313], 'audiences': [314], 'simultaneously': [315], 'making': [317], 'use': [318, 429], 'dual': [321], 'nationality': [322, 417], 'fluid': [324], 'affords': [329], 'him,': [330], 'whereby': [331], 'condemns': [333], 'conditions': [334], 'Eamon': [336], 'de': [337], 'Valera’s': [338], 'at': [340, 529], 'same': [342], 'time': [343], 'exhibits': [346], 'sense': [348], 'nostalgia': [350], 'past.': [353], 'recognise': [359], 'many': [360], 'tropes': [361, 913], 'appropriated': [362], 'films,': [364], 'songs,': [365], 'melodramatic': [369, 912], 'themes,': [370], 'thus': [371], 'providing': [372, 776], 'meta-textual': [374], '‘framework’': [375], 'experiences': [379], 'organised': [381], 'given': [383], 'meaning': [384], 'an': [386, 738, 762], 'audience': [387], 'understand.': [389], 'As': [390, 966], 'consequence,': [392], 'each': [393], 'chapter': [394, 517, 579, 635], 'verifies': [395], 'deployment': [398], 'memory': [401, 751, 784], 'function,': [406], '‘read’,': [408], 'either': [410], 'deconstruct': [411], 'or': [412, 418, 627, 806], 'cement': [413], 'essentialist': [414], 'notions': [415], 'ethnicity.': [419], '\r\n\r\nIn': [420], 'first': [422, 513], 'chapter,': [423, 719, 802, 869, 928], '‘Angela’s': [424], 'Ashes': [425, 479, 525], 'Performance’,': [427], 'theatre': [433, 648], 'society': [435], 'potential': [438], 'interact': [440], 'become': [442], 'space': [444], 'transformation': [447], 'utopian': [449], 'thought,': [450], 'emphasise': [452], 'overlooked': [454], 'dynamic': [456], 'best-known': [459], 'text,': [460, 493], 'Angela’s': [463, 478, 524, 590], 'Ashes.': [464], 'The': [465, 512, 574, 634, 834], 'begins': [467], 'this': [469, 496, 516, 540, 578, 970], 'structuring': [470], 'principle': [471], 'prove': [473], 'reworking': [476], 'makes': [482], 'visible': [483], 'mediation': [485, 643, 703], 'presentation': [487, 917], "‘Irishness'": [489], 're-written': [492], 'forges': [497], 'relation': [499], 'part': [514], 'highlights': [518], 'little-known': [520], 'musical': [521, 741], 'adaptation': [522], 'was': [527, 542, 593], 'staged': [528], 'Derby': [530, 559, 608], 'Theatre': [531], 'November': [533], '2012.': [534], 'production': [541], 'strikingly': [543], 'political,': [544], 'made': [546], 'great': [547], 'efforts': [548], 'speak': [550], 'situation': [553], 'diaspora': [557], 'draw': [562], 'attention': [563], 'alienation': [567], 'caused': [568], 'poverty': [570], 'city.': [573], 'second': [575, 718], 'half': [576], 'scrutinises': [580], 'contrasting': [582], 'example': [583], 'Alan': [585], 'Parker’s': [586], 'film': [587, 612], 'Ashes,': [591], 'realised': [594], 'Paramount': [596], 'Pictures': [597], '1999.': [599], 'that,': [603], 'contrast': [605], 'adaptation,': [609], 'Parker': [611], 'evaded': [613], 'any': [614, 624], 'localising': [615], 'particularities': [616], 'might': [618], 'enable': [619], 'critique': [622], 'particular': [625, 655], 'nation': [626], 'governmental': [628], 'regime': [629], 'be': [631, 663, 952], 'constructed.': [632], 'shows': [636, 697], 'construction': [641, 701], 'identifiable': [645], 'text': [649], 'order': [651, 786], 'appeal': [653], 'audiences.': [656], 'Overall,': [657], 'then,': [658], 'revealed': [661], 'relied': [667, 909], 'playhouse': [670, 946], 'own': [674, 706, 916, 980], 'memoirs,': [675], 'whose': [677], 'itself': [680], 'appropriate': [681], 're-adaptation': [683], 'back': [684], 'realm': [687], 'theatrical.': [690], 'Each': [691], 'chapters': [694], 'follow': [696], 'texts,': [707], 'demonstrating': [708], 'about': [711, 1001], 're-presentation': [712], 'rewriting': [714], 'inform': [715], 'thesis.\r\n\r\nThe': [717], '‘I’d': [720], 'Love': [721], 'To': [722], 'Be': [723], 'When': [725], 'It’s': [726], 'Time': [727], 'Song’,': [730], 'asesses': [731], 'why': [734], 'displays': [737], 'extraordinary': [739], 'strong': [740], 'influence': [742], 'music': [745, 760], 'intervenes': [746], 'uses': [749, 817], 'personal': [750], 'return': [753], 'events.': [756], 'becomes': [761], 'index': [763], 'relationship': [766], 'assorted': [768], 'collectives': [769], 'such': [770, 911], 'as': [771], 'family,': [772], 'community': [773], 'state,': [775], 'him': [777], 'means': [780], 'activating': [782], 'develop': [788], 'autobiographical': [790], 'nature': [791], 'through': [795], 'allusion': [796], 'reference.': [798], '\r\n\r\nThe': [800], 'third': [801], '‘Are': [803], 'ye': [804], 'Gangsters': [805], 'Cowboys?': [807], '[…]': [808], 'Fred': [809, 832], 'Astaire': [810], 'How': [811], 'Are': [812], 'You?’': [813], '‘fantasy’': [818], 'figures': [819], 'cinema,': [822], 'particularly': [823], 'matinee': [825], 'heroes': [826], 'John': [827], 'Wayne,': [828], 'James': [829, 964], 'Cagney': [830], 'Astaire.': [833], 'Western': [835], 'hero,': [836], '‘hoodlum’': [838], 'dancer': [841], 'shown': [843], 'provide': [845], 'framework': [848], 'comes': [853], 'describe': [855], 'explore': [857], 'vexed': [859], 'issue': [860], 'masculinities.\r\n\r\nThe': [863], 'two-fold': [864], 'focus': [865], 'fourth': [868], '‘Melodramatic': [870], 'Moments’,': [871], 'argues': [872], 'owes': [876], 'debt': [878], 'literary': [881], 'predecessors': [882], 'Dion': [883], 'Boucicault': [884], 'Sean': [886], 'O’Casey.': [887], 'knew': [894], 'these': [898], 'writers': [899], 'both': [901, 920], 'textual': [902], 'performed': [904], 'contexts,': [905], 'self,': [919], 'page': [923], 'person.\r\n\r\nThe': [926], 'fifth': [927], '‘Frank': [929], 'Performance': [931], 'Irishness:': [933], 'Joycean': [934], 'Other': [936], 'Legacies’': [937], 'broadens': [938], 'out': [939], 'beyond': [940], 'four': [942], 'walls': [943], 'may': [951], 'relying': [953], 'paradigms': [958], 'best': [961], 'known': [962], 'writer,': [963], 'Joyce.': [965], 'will': [968], 'show,': [969], 'not': [972], 'simply': [973], 'emulating': [978], 'Joyce’s': [979], 'writings': [981], '–': [982, 988], 'course': [985], 'does': [987], 'but': [989], 'also': [990], 'question': [992], 'navigates': [996], 'expectations': [1000], 'post-Joycean': [1004], 'ought': [1007], 'perform.': [1009]}, 'cited_by_api_url': 'https://api.openalex.org/works?filter=cites:W2512631446', 'counts_by_year': [], 'updated_date': '2024-12-09T03:53:31.427993', 'created_date': '2016-09-16'}