Illusion And Reality In Eugene O Neill S The Iceman Cometh And Long Day S Journey Into Night

Author : Dennis Alexander Goebels
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640620197

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Illusion and Reality in Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night" by Dennis Alexander Goebels Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Ruhr-University of Bochum (Englisches Seminar), course: Eugene O'Neill, language: English, abstract: The Iceman Cometh (published in 1940) and Long Day's Journey into Night (published in 1956 after O'Neill's death) are widely recognized to be two of Eugene O'Neill's best plays. Both belong to his late plays and apart from that bear a lot of similarities. The focus of this paper will be to analyze The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey into Night with special regard to the importance of illusion and reality for both the characters and the progress of the play. Furthermore a comparison will be made between Hickey in The Iceman Cometh and Mary Cavan Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night in order to show that they have similar functions in their respective plays. Finally a conclusion will be given which will sum up the argumentation.

Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438125619

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Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill Pdf

Presents a collection of critical essays on O'Neill's play, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.

Author : Veena Neerudu
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781794899322

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Vain Hopes of the Human Race in Eugene O'Neill's Plays by Veena Neerudu Pdf

Author : Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher : Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UCSC:32106009272896

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Sixteen Modern American Authors by Jackson R. Bryer Pdf

Praise for the earlier edition: "Students of modern American literature have for some years turned to Fifteen Modern American Authors (1969) as an indispensable guide to significant scholarship and criticism about twentieth-century American writers. In its new form--Sixteenth Modern American Authors--it will continue to be indispensable. If it is not a desk-book for all Americanists, it is a book to be kept in the forefront of the bibliographical compartment of their brains."--American Studies

Author : Zander Brietzke
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786483112

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The Aesthetics of Failure by Zander Brietzke Pdf

Critic Clive Barnes once called Eugene O'Neill the "world's worst great playwright" and Brooks Atkinson called him "a tragic dramatist with a great knack for old-fashioned melodrama." These descriptions of the man can also be used to describe his work. Despite the fact that O'Neill is the only American playwright to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and his last works are some of America's finest, most of his published works are not good. This work closely examines how O'Neill's failures as a playwright are inspiring and how his disappointments are reflections of his own theory that tragedy requires failure, a theory that is evident in his work. Conflicts in O'Neill's plays are studied at the structural level, with attention paid to genre, language or dialogue, characters, space and time elements, and action. Included is information about O'Neill's life and a chronological listing of all of his 50 plays with basic details such as production history, principal characters, dramatic action, and a brief commentary.

Author : Fred Abong,Craig Condella,Jordan E. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443891745

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Crisis, Exposure, Imagination by Fred Abong,Craig Condella,Jordan E. Miller Pdf

Unprecedented changes appear to be occurring more often and more rapidly than ever before. We notice these changes and events more readily due to the advent of the information age and the continual technological innovation that has accompanied it. New methods of the manufacture and the dissemination of information expose us to crises in ways previously impossible. These crises often lead to the exposure of new ways of understanding. The lifting of veils allows us to see these crises more clearly. In turn, these epiphanies invite imaginative and creative responses. This volume interprets this situation in a new way—not just as an examination of what happens to us and the variety of crises we face, but the way in which we understand them. How do we produce new ways of thinking and discussing crises? What is the role of imagination in both the description of crisis and the response to it? How are we changed and how do we change our thinking and writing as a result? There are two sides of the veil, with crisis on one side and imagination on the other. The issue of lifting veils—of revelatory change—expresses the contributors’ interest in the intersection of and collaboration between different disciplines. As an interdisciplinary project, this book takes a new approach in discussing our current condition. Lifting the veil radically undoes the past, opens us to the future through change, and provides the possibility for vision and hope.

Author : Steven F. Bloom Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313049095

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Student Companion to Eugene O'Neill by Steven F. Bloom Ph.D. Pdf

Eugene O'Neill is the only American dramatist ever to have received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He wrote over 50 plays; a number are virtually unknown by the general public; several are considered classics of the American stage; all of them demonstrate, in one way or another, how O'Neill challenged the conventional boundaries of the drama of his time and thereby paved the way for modern American theatre. This volume will provide guides to eight of O'Neill's plays that are most often studied in schools and colleges: The Hairy Ape, Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, Desire Under the Elms, Ah, Wilderness!, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night, and A Moon for the Misbegotten. More than almost any other author in any fictional genre, O'Neill's works are highly autobiographical. The love/hate relationships he had with the members of his own family resonate throughout his dramatic works. The son of an alcoholic and a morphine addict, he struggled with chemical dependency throughout his life, but determined to be an artist or nothing, he eventually gave up drinking and fulfilled his artistic ambitions, transforming the traumatic experiences of his life into compelling drama. O'Neill's drama provides insights into the complexities of human behavior and raises questions about the forces, both external and internal, that shape human lives.

Author : Drew Eisenhauer,Brenda Murphy
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786463916

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Intertextuality in American Drama by Drew Eisenhauer,Brenda Murphy Pdf

The new essays in this collection, on such diverse writers as Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, Maurine Dallas Watkins, Sophie Treadwell, and Washington Irving, fill an important conceptual gap. The essayists offer numerous approaches to intertextuality: the influence of the poetry of romanticism and Shakespeare and of histories and novels, ideological and political discourses on American playwrights, unlikely connections between such writers as Miller and Wilder, the problems of intertexts in translation, the evolution in historical and performance contexts of the same tale, and the relationships among feminism, the drama of the courtroom, and the drama of the stage. Intertextuality has been an under-explored area in studies of dramatic and performance texts. The innovative findings of these scholars testify to the continuing vitality of research in American drama and performance.

Author : Jaya Kapoor
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781543706888

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The Dramatic Journey of Eugene O’Neill and Samuel Beckett by Jaya Kapoor Pdf

The moderns found these two writers to be one of them, and the post moderns said their essence was post-modern. They were found to have deep existential core and humanism was the defining spirit of their works. When a writer writes with deep empathy for the human situation, the work is freed from the traps of ideologies and techniques. It reaches out to people beyond time and space. Truth is complex and individual in manifestation but simple and universal in essence. This simplicity is the most difficult to achieve and most prized achievement of an artist. This simplicity of the communication is what the journey of O’Neill and Beckett has been all about. Their journey is marked by unsparing effort to give a universal metaphor to an immensely subjective experience. The voices of two of the greatest dramatists come together to tell not just what drama has been all about in the 20th Century, but also what it is in our own day. It looks not just into the plots or characters to understand their works but also how they communicated so much more through the way they visualized the technical aspects and theatrical impact of their plays.

Author : Anthony S. Abbott
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817312022

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The Vital Lie by Anthony S. Abbott Pdf

The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover if modern playwrights treat illusions as helpful or necessary to life, or as signals of sicknesses from which human beings need to be cured. What happens to characters when they are forced to face the truth about themselves and their worlds without the protection of their illusions? The author develops a three-part historical analysis of the use of the reality-illusion theme, from its origins as a metaphysical search to its current elaborations as a theatrical game.

Author : Clark Stevens
Publisher : Walch Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0825139163

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Walch Toolbook: Drama by Clark Stevens Pdf

Introduces students to the common vocabulary of drama. Extends and enriches the study of drama to include mood, tension, stage direction, and more. Features activities for many dramatic forms including farce, tragedy, and comedy. Strengthens any language arts class and is a perfect companion to any play.

Author : Joseph Lichtenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317484745

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Selected Papers of Joseph Lichtenberg by Joseph Lichtenberg Pdf

The World Library of Mental Health celebrates the important contributions to mental health made by leading experts in their individual fields. Each author has compiled a career-long collection of what they consider to be their finest pieces: extracts from books, journals, articles, major theoretical and practical contributions, and salient research findings. Leading psychoanalyst Joseph D. Lichtenberg is one of the most experienced and best respected psychoanalysts working in the US at present. In A Developmentalist's Approach to Research, Theory, and Therapy, he provides the reader with an opportunity to track the development of his conceptions in three realms of psychoanalysis: Infant studies and developmentalist perspectives on the life cycle Theoretical contributions to self-psychology Motivational clinical contributions Joseph Lichtenberg is a hugely influential name within US Psychoanalysis circles; this is the first collection of the seminal papers from his very long and distinguished career.

Author : James P. Draper
Publisher : Gale Research International, Limited
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literature
ISBN : 0810383659

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World Literary Criticism by James P. Draper Pdf

Contains articles that provide a selection of criticism of works by thirty-nine major writers of the past five centuries, covering a range of countries and cultures; each with a biographical and critical introduction, and a list of principal works. Arranged alphabetically from Lee to Poe.

Author : J. L. Styan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521296285

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Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 1, Realism and Naturalism by J. L. Styan Pdf

This 1981 volume begins with the French revolt against naturalism in theatre and then covers the European realist movement.

Author : Robert M. Dowling
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781438108728

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Critical Companion to Eugene O'Neill, 2-Volume Set by Robert M. Dowling Pdf

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'.