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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Eisen, Kurt (1958-2019)
Titre(s) : The theatre of Eugene O'Neill [Texte imprimé] : American modernism on the world stage / Kurt Eisen
Publication : London ; New York : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017
Description matérielle : xiii, 241 pages ; 23 cm
Collection : Critical companions
Lien à la collection : Critical companions
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"The Theatre of Eugene O'Neill offers a new comprehensive overview of O'Neill's career
and plays in the context of the American theatre. Organised thematically, it considers
his Modernist intervention in the theatre, offers readers detailed analysis of the
plays, and assesses the recent resurgence in his reputation and new approaches to
staging his work. It includes a study of all his major plays - The Emperor Jones,
The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey into Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten
and Desire Under the Elms - besides numerous other full length and one act dramas."
-- Publisher's description
Sujet(s) : O'Neill, Eugene (1888-1953) -- Critique et interprétation
Modernisme (littérature) -- Théâtre (genre littéraire) -- États-Unis
Indice(s) Dewey :
812.52 (23e éd.) = Théâtre américain de langue anglaise - 1900-1945 [critique]
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781474238410. - ISBN 1474238416 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47236988k
Notice n° :
FRBNF47236988
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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 Provincetown -- ; Journeying
into the past -- ; 2.. A Modernist in the Making : O'Neill Before Broadway -- ; An
early "skit" -- ; First publication: Testing the waters -- ; Trying the longer form:
Two early portraits of an artist -- ; Finding his voice -- ; Among the bohemians --
; The homeless life at sea -- ; Haunted by the primitive sea -- ; Staging suicide
-- ; After the revolution -- ; 3.. Tragedy and the Postrevolutionary Condition --
; Youthful revolutionary verse and drama -- ; Yank's personal revolution in The Hairy
Ape -- ; Defying empire in Lazarus Laughed -- ; Days Without End: A failed revolution
of the soul -- ; A touch of the revolutionary: The American history cycle -- ; 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 for the Misbegotten: The limits of
female representation -- ; 5.. "Souls under Skins": Masks, Race, and the Divided American
Self -- ; Modernity as double consciousness -- ; Up from blackface: The Dreamy Kid
-- ; A nation's alienated history: The Emperor Jones -- ; All God's Chillun Got Wings:
Race and American modernity -- ; The Fountain and Marco Millions as mirrors of modernity
-- ; The play of masks in The Great God Brown -- ; Unmasking Irishness in A Touch
of the Poet -- ; 6.. Transience and Tradition: O'Neill's Modern Families -- ; Filial
strife in The Rope and Exorcism -- ; Remaking the dramatic family: Beyond the Horizon
-- ; Removing the walls: Desire Under the Elms -- ; 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 ; ; O'Neill's Emperor Jones: Racing the Great White
Way / / Katie N. Johnson ; ; Tony Kushner's O'Neill: Seeking Meaning on Marblehead
Neck / / Sheila Hickey Garvey ; ; Conclusion: O'Neill After O'Neill -- ; Conjuring
the dead -- ; The Experimental Theatre, cont. -- ; A global legacy -- ; A continuing
dialogue.