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The ecological Eugene O'Neill : nature's veiled purpose in the plays /

"O'Neill's figures move within purposefully animated natural environments--ocean, dense forest, desert plains, the rocky soil of New England. This explores ecological settings as crucial to O'Neill's characters' ability to carry out their conscious and unconscious desir...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baker-White, Robert, 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Organizing the Corpus: Tropes of Seeing Nature in O'Neill Two-Depth, Reach, Mystery: The Early Sea Plays ; Early Maritime Plays: The Perilous Ocean ; Toward Accommodation: Surviving with the Davil in "Anna Christie " ; Three-Pastorals: Complex, Alive, Possessed
  • Early Land Plays: Situating the Rural Beyond the Horizon: Scenic Rhythms in "a land of lost grace " ; "God's in the stones ": Naturalist Nature in Desire Under the Elms ; Four-Big Work: Staging the Deity ; The Hairy Ape: Spiritual Quest and Failure to Transcend
  • The Great God Brown, Lazarus Laughed and Strange Interlude: "Higher, Freer " Aspirations Dynamo and Days Without End: Deadly "Contact " ; Five-Trade Winds in the Coco Palms: The Lure of the Exotic; Diff'rence: Youthful Ventures in the Far Horizon; The Doubleness of Nature in The Emperor Jones
  • Strangers in Strange Lands: The Fountain and Marco Millions Mourning Becomes Electra: Ecology and Morality ; Six-Culminations: O'Neill's Extended Epilogue ; Ah, Wilderness! ; The Iceman Cometh ; Long Day's Journey into Night ; A Moon for the Misbegotten ; Notes ; Bibliography