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Eugene O'Neill and the Reinvention of Theatre Aesthetics /
The plays of Eugene O'Neill testify to his continued search for new dramatic strategies. The author explores the Nobel Prize winner's attempts at creating a new Modern play. He shows how, moving away from melodrama or "the problem play," O'Neill revisited the classical frame...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Aristotle Got His Gun: From A Wife for a Life, Now I Ask You! ... to A Touch of the Poet; 2. Thirst: A Theatrical Appetizer; 3. Human and Aesthetic Migrations in Fog; 4. Bound East for Cardiff, an Immobile Crossing; 5. The Movie Man: The Failure of Aesthetics?; 6. Servitude: Portrait of the Artist as a Committed Playwright; 7. Before Breakfast: An Overemphasized Monologue?; 8. Exorcism: The Road Not Taken; 9. "Harmless Foights" in the Sea Plays
- 10. Home, Elsewhere: Tragic (Im)mobility in Beyond the Horizon11. Madness in Where the Cross Is Made and Gold; 12. A Long, Long Kiss: Labial Contacts in The Straw, Diff'rent, The First Man, The Fountain and Welded; 13. The Aesthetics of (Fake) Salvation in "Anna Christie"; 14. The Emperor Jones: Inventing a New Dramaturgy; 15. The Hairy Ape: An Orphean Journey into Thought; 16. A Playwright-Director Staging The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; 17. A Thing Is Not Just a Thing: An Uncanny Stage Presence in All God's Chillun Got Wings
- 18. Opaque or Transparent Representations of Desire in Desire Under the Elms19. Home Away from Home: Greed in Marco Millions; 20. The Great God Brown: Shedding Old-Fashioned Staging Models?; 21. Lazarus Laughed and Dynamo: Nonverbal Communications; 22. Strange Interlude: Exposing the Invisible; 23. The Ways of the Flesh in Mourning Becomes Electra; 24. A Kierkegaardian Comedy: The Painless Contradictions of a Festive Meal in Ah, Wilderness!; 25. Days Without End: A Modern Miracle Play?; 26. The Origin of a World: Male Privacy and Tragedy in A Touch of the Poet
- 27. A Garden of One's Own: Heterotopia in More Stately Mansions28. O'Neill's Choric Designs in The Iceman Cometh; 29. Long Day's Journey into Night: Words for the Birth of a Ghostly Irish Playwright; 30. Hughie, Written More to be Read Than Staged?; 31. The Road to Salvation in A Moon for the Misbegotten; Conclusion; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index