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Regression and apocalypse : studies in North American literary expressionism /

Working from a set of topoi and structural paradigms, Grace discusses selected examples of expressionistic texts.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grace, Sherrill, 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©1989.
Colección:desLibris. Books collection.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. 'Entartete Kunst' : modernism in Germany. 1. Expressionism : history, definition, and theory. 2. German Expressionism in the arts
  • pt. 2. Expressionism on the North American stage. 3. 'The new art of the theater' in New York and Toronto. 4. Eugene O'Neill : the American Georg Kaiser. 5. Herman Voaden's 'symphonic Expressionism'
  • pt. 3. Expressionism and the modern novel. 6. The dark night of the soul : Djuna Barnes's Nightwood. 7. The soul in writhing anguish : Malcolm Lowry's Under the volcano. 8. Sheila Watson and the 'double hook' of expressive abstraction. 9. 'The real soul-sickness' : self-creation and the Expressionist method in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man
  • pt. 4. The Expressionist legacy. 10. From Modernism to Postmodernism : conclusions, speculations, and questions.