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Author: Zander Brietzke Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300248474 Category : American drama Languages : en Pages : 254
Book Description
An original and provocative analysis of Eugene O'Neill's unfinished cycle play project From 1935 to 1939, Eugene O'Neill worked on a series of plays that would trace the history of an American family through several generations. He completed just two of the proposed eleven plays--A Touch of the Poet and More Stately Mansions--which Zander Brietzke argues represent the core of the entire cycle. Combining archival research, literary analysis, and theatrical imagination, Magnum Opus invites an audience to see this unusual and exciting epic as a historical drama of our time.
Author: Zander Brietzke Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300248474 Category : American drama Languages : en Pages : 254
Book Description
An original and provocative analysis of Eugene O'Neill's unfinished cycle play project From 1935 to 1939, Eugene O'Neill worked on a series of plays that would trace the history of an American family through several generations. He completed just two of the proposed eleven plays--A Touch of the Poet and More Stately Mansions--which Zander Brietzke argues represent the core of the entire cycle. Combining archival research, literary analysis, and theatrical imagination, Magnum Opus invites an audience to see this unusual and exciting epic as a historical drama of our time.
Author: Kurt Eisen Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1474238424 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 342
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Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year 2018 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. Eugene O'Neill is generally credited with inventing modern American drama, in a time of cultural ferment and lively artistic and intellectual change. Yet O'Neill's theatrical instincts were always shaped by American stage traditions that were inextricable from his sense of himself and his own national culture. This study shows that his theatrical modernism represents not so much a break from these traditions as a reinvention of their scope and significance in the context of international stage modernism, offering an image of national culture and character that opens new possibilities for the stage while remaining rooted in its past. Kurt Eisen traces O'Neill's modernism throughout the dramatists's work: his attempts to break from the themes, plots, and moral conventions of the traditional melodramatic theatre; his experiments in stagecraft and theme, and their connection to traditional theatre and his European modernist contemporaries; the turn toward direct and indirect self-representation; and his critique of the family and of American 'pipe dreams' and the allure of success. The volume additionally features four contributed essays providing further critical perspectives on O'Neill's work, alongside a chronology of the writer's life and times.
Author: Larry G. Hinman Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0313091471 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 324
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An outstanding research guide for undergraduate students of American literature, this best-selling book is essential when it comes to researching American authors. Bracken and Hinman identify and describe the best and most current sources, both in print and online, for nearly 300 American writers whose works are included in the most frequently used literary anthologies. Students will know exactly what information is available and where to find it.
Author: Anthony W. Shipps Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252016950 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 216
Book Description
The tracer's goals are to identify the source of a quotation, to find or to produce detailed citation based on a reliable edition of the work, to find an authoritative text of the passage being traced, and to do all this in the shortest time possible and with the least possible amount of effort.
Author: Robert M. Dowling Publisher: Infobase Publishing ISBN: 1438108729 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 831
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This study explores the personal, historical, and artistic influences that combined to form such dark and influential American masterpieces as 'The Iceman Cometh', 'The Emperor Jones', 'Mourning Becomes Electra', 'Hughie', and - arguably the finest tragedy ever written by an American - 'Long Day's Journey into Night'.
Author: Geoffrey S. Proehl Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press ISBN: 9780838635476 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 236
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This study focuses on the representation of the family in American drama, in particular, on various uses and conventions of the figure of the prodigal husband or son. It considers the lineage and function of this figure from the writings of Augustine, medieval iconography, Renaissance prodigal son plays, and temperance melodramas to such contemporary manifestations as television talk shows, the Recovery Movement, and plays by contemporary writers including Spalding Gray, Ntozake Shange, and Cherrie Moraga.
Author: Stephen A. Black Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300093995 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 606
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Stricken with guilt and grief when his father, mother and brother died in quick succession, Eugene O'Neill mourned deeply for two decades. This critical biography presents an understanding of O'Neill's life, work and slow grieving.
Author: Mark Kobernick Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing ISBN: 9027232911 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 174
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A semiotic analysis is made of the six major plays by Eugene O'Neill and an attempt is made to yield a systematic analysis towards humanistic interpretations of texts. Theoretical interpretations are enriched with discussions of the plays. Technical matters such as the segmentation of the text are specified in appendices. Six semiotic dimensions have been studied: motifs, theatrical semiotic systems, their use in communicational functions, role function of the dramatis personae, their levels of awareness, and aristotelian divisions.
Author: Zander Brietzke
Author: Zander Brietzke
Author: Kurt Eisen
Author: Larry G. Hinman
Author: Anthony W. Shipps
Author: Robert M. Dowling
Author: Geoffrey S. Proehl
Author: Stephen A. Black
Author: Michael J. Marcuse
Author: Mark Kobernick
Author: Brown University. Library