The theatre of Eugene O'Neill : American modernism on the world stage / Kurt Eisen.
The theatre of Eugene O'Neill : American modernism on the world stage / Kurt Eisen.
The theatre of Eugene O'Neill : American modernism on the world stage / Kurt Eisen.
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London : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2018.
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G 2019/2579
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English
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xiii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
1.O'Neill's American Theatre: Modernism Against Modernity -- Modernism and tradition -- Youthful mentors: Nietzsche and Strindberg -- Modernism contra modernity -- An American modernism -- Melodrama as modernity -- Prophesying a modern American stage -- From Harvard to Greenwich Village -- After Pro...
Revolution as pipe dream: The Iceman Cometh -- 4.New Women, Male Destinies: The "Woman Plays" -- Early portraits: Now I Ask You and The Straw -- Women and marriage in three plays of the early 1920s -- Her own boss: Anna Christie -- O'Neill's "woman play" -- Dynamo and the modern goddess -- A Moon fo...
Family as mask in Mourning Becomes Electra -- The happy modernism of Ah, Wilderness! -- Homelessness in Long Day's Journey Into Night -- 7.Critical Perspectives -- O'Neill: Biography, Autobiography, and Standing in for Eugene (G.) O'Neill William Davies King -- The Literary O'Neill Alexander Pettit...
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London : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2018.
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England
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2018.
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The theatre of Eugene O'Neill : American modernism on the world stage / Kurt Eisen.
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Critical Companions
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Also issued online.
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ebook version 9781474238427
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G 2019/2579
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74VKVB80Z06d
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9781474238410 (hbk.) :
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812.52
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991024242108102626
