Background
Farrington, Robert Martin was born on August 3, 1939 in Bay City, Michigan, United States. Son of Donald Charles and Mary Ellen (Jeuderine) Farrington.
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Robert M. Farrington sheds new light on nine folk-inspired rural dramas produced by three European playwrights between 1885 and 1936: Spain’s Federico Garcia Lorca, Ireland’s John Millington Synge, and Germany’s Gerhart Hauptmann. Through an analysis of the linguistic conventions of the three dramatists and by tying their plays’ language to a myth/ritual content, this book defines the works as representative of a sub-genre, that is, lyric folkdrama. A sound/meaning nexus is identified as an essential ingredient of folkdrama. To clarify this relationship between sound and meaning and to establish a theoretical basis for the linguistic analysis, the study draws from works on myth, ritual, drama, and poetic language by Aristotle, Richard Wagner, Mircea Eliade, and Northrop Frye, as well as from critical studies by the structuralists Roman Jakobson and Claude Lévi-Strauss.
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Farrington, Robert Martin was born on August 3, 1939 in Bay City, Michigan, United States. Son of Donald Charles and Mary Ellen (Jeuderine) Farrington.
Bachelor, Michigan State University, 1961. Master of Arts, Michigan State University, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1980.
Faculty Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1961—1963. Teacher Lycée Vauvenargues, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1963—1965, Mount Vernon High School, New York, 1966—1967, Byran Hills High School, Armonk, 1967—1978, Scarsdale Schools, 1978—1995. Instructor Westchester Community College, Valhalla, 1991—2002, Columbus State Community College, Ohio, since 2002.
Writer/editor/consultant The College Digest, Larchmont, New York, 1983—1987.
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Member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Merrel L. Amins, July 4, 1965. 1 child Jessica Deborah Farrington Ruthkopf.