| Description |
1 online resource (x, 134 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and U.S. Dramatic Theory, 1935-1947 -- 2. Long Day's Journey into Night: The Seen and the Unseen -- 3. The Iceman Cometh: Buying Time -- 4. The Glass Menagerie: Loss and Space -- 5. A Streetcar Named Desire: Spatial Violation and Sexual Violence |
| Summary |
Mimetic Disillusion reevaluates the history of modern U.S. drama in general and the dramatic art of O'Neill and Williams specifically, showing how at mid-century drama in America shifted away from representational theatre, toward a poststructuralist "disillusionment" with mimesis. The book focuses on two major writers of the 1930s and 1940s - Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams - one whose writing career was just ending and the other whose career was just beginning. In new readings of their major works of this period, Long Day's Journey into Night, The Iceman Cometh, The Glass Menagerie, and A Streetcar Named Desire, Fleche develops connections to the writings of Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, and Michel Foucault, among others, and discusses poststructuralism in the light of such modern writers as Bertolt Brecht, Antonin Artaud, and Walter Benjamin |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-130) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 -- Criticism and interpretation
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O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953 fast |
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Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 fast |
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Williams, Tennessee. swd |
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O'Neill, Eugene. swd |
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Iceman cometh. swd |
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Streetcar named desire. swd |
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Long day's journey into night. swd |
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Glass menagerie. swd |
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American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Realism in literature.
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DRAMA -- American.
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American drama
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Realism in literature
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Realismus
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Toneelstukken.
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Realisme (letterkunde)
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Amerikaans.
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780817381851 |
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0817381856 |
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