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Down the nights and down the days : Eugene O'Neill's Catholic sensibility /

The latest book from veteran O'Neillian Edward L. Shaughnessy, Down the Nights and Down the Days: Eugene O'Neill's Catholic Sensibility examines a major aspect of the playwright's vision: the influence of his Catholic heritage upon his moral imagination. Critics, aware of O'...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shaughnessy, Edward L., 1932-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Notre Dame, Ind : University of Notre Dame Press, ©1996.
Colección:Irish in America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The reluctant apostate. The Lad, the rebel, the artist
  • The O'Neills : cradle Catholics
  • Training and education
  • Greenwich village, radicals, and the Provincetown theatre
  • Dorothy Day
  • Catholic memory, classic forms
  • Catholic sensibility : a brief definition
  • O'Neill the traditionalist
  • O'Neill the traditionalist
  • O'Neill and the timeless issues of sin and guilt
  • "What a modern tragedy would have to be"
  • Church authority, artistic freedom, and the search for God
  • A note on the climate of opinion
  • O'Neill and the Catholic press
  • "The substitute-God search" : brief remarks on three plays. The Great God Brown ; Lazarus Laughed ; Strange Interlude. Catholic sensibility and thematic development. Plays : early period (1916-1923) . Ile : Beyond the Horizon ; All God's Chillun Got Wings
  • Plays : Middle Period (1924-1933). Desire Under the Elms ; Mourning Becomes Electra ; Ah, Wilderness!
  • The "Catholic" play : Days Without End (1934)
  • Plays : late period (1939-1943). The Iceman Cometh ; Long Day's Journey into Night ; A Touch of the Poet ; More Stately Mansions ; A Moon for the Misbegotten
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: The Immigrant Church Press and the Catholic Writer, 1920-1950.