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Author : Michael Manheim,Cambridge University Press
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-09-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521556457
Specially commissioned essays explore the life and work of Eugene O'Neill from his earliest writings to Long Day's Journey Into Night.
Author : Manheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1139815547
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780791093665
A collection of essays about the works of Eugene O'Neill.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410349224
A Study Guide for Eugene O'Neill's "Ile," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Robert Baker-White
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780786498758
The dramas of Eugene O'Neill--often called America's first "serious" playwright--exhibit an imagining of the natural world that enlivens the plays and marks the boundaries of the characters' fates. O'Neill's figures move within purposefully animated natural environments--ocean, dense forest, desert plains, the rocky soil of New England. This new approach to O'Neill's dramas explores these ecological settings as crucial to his characters' ability to carry out their conscious and unconscious desires. O'Neill's career is covered, from his youthful one-acts, to the middle years experimental dramas, to the mature tragedies of his late period. Special attention is paid to the connection of ecology and theological quest, and to O'Neill's persistent evocation of an exotic, natural "other." Combining an ecocritical approach with an examination of Classical and philosophical influences on the playwright's creative process, the author reveals a new, less hermetic O'Neill.
Author : Jaya Kapoor
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781543706888
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 : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521797276
This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Edgar Allan Poe's work and life. Contributions provide a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversial American writers. The essays, specially tailored to the needs of undergraduates, examine all of Poe's major writings, his poetry, short stories and criticism, and place his work in a variety of literary, cultural and political contexts. They situate his imaginative writings in relation to different modes of writing: humor, Gothicism, anti-slavery tracts, science fiction, the detective story, and sentimental fiction. Three chapters examine specific works: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Raven', and 'Ulalume'. The volume features a detailed chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading, and will be of interest to students and scholars alike.
Author : David Krasner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405137348
This Companion provides an original and authoritative surveyof twentieth-century American drama studies, written by some of thebest scholars and critics in the field. Balances consideration of canonical material with discussion ofworks by previously marginalized playwrights Includes studies of leading dramatists, such as TennesseeWilliams, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill and Gertrude Stein Allows readers to make new links between particular plays andplaywrights Examines the movements that framed the century, such as theHarlem Renaissance, lesbian and gay drama, and the soloperformances of the 1980s and 1990s Situates American drama within larger discussions aboutAmerican ideas and culture
Author : Thierry Dubost
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781476677286
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 frames of drama and reinvented theater aesthetics by resorting to masks, the chorus, acoustics, silence or immobility for the creation of his dramatic works.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410341259
A Study Guide for Eugene O'Neill's "Beyond the Horizon," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Robert M. Dowling
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781438108728
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'.
Author : Susan J. Wolfson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052165839X
In The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats's work in several fascinating contexts: literary history and key predecessors; Keats's life in London's intellectual, aesthetic and literary culture and the relation of his poetry to the visual arts. These specially commissioned essays are sophisticated but accessible, challenging but lucid, and are complemented by an introduction to Keats's life, a chronology, a list of contemporary people and periodicals, a source reference for famous phrases and ideas articulated in Keats's letters, a glossary of literary terms and a guide to further reading.
Author : Neil Lazarus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521534186
Offers a lucid introduction to postcolonial studies, one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies.
Author : Jeremy Killian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000546132
Through a close re-examination of Eugene O’Neill’s oeuvre, from minor plays to his Pulitzer-winning works, this study proposes that O’Neill’s vision of tragedy privileges a particular emotional response over a more “rational” one among his audience members. In addition to offering a new paradigm through which to interpret O’Neill’s work, this book argues that O’Neill’s theory of tragedy is a robust account of the value of difficult theatre as a whole, with more explanatory scope and power than its cognitivist counterparts. This paradigm reshapes our understanding of live theatrical tragedy’s impact and significance for our lives. The book enters the discussion of tragic value by way of the plays of Eugene O’Neill, and through this study, Killian makes the case that O’Neill has refused to allow Plato to define the terms of tragedy’s merit, as the cognitivists have. He argues that O’Neill’s theory of tragedy is non-cognitive and locates the value of a play in its ability to trigger certain emotional responses from the audience. This would be of great interest to students and scholars of performance studies, literature and philosophy.
Author : Kurt Eisen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474238427
Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year 2018 The Theatre of Eugene O'Neill offers a new comprehensive overview of O'Neill's career and plays in the context of the American theatre. Organised thematically, it considers his modernist intervention in the theatre, offers readers detailed analysis of the plays, and assesses the recent resurgence in his reputation and new approaches to staging his work. It includes a study of all his major plays-The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten and Desire Under the Elms-besides numerous other full length and one act dramas. Eugene O'Neill is generally credited with inventing modern American drama, in a time of cultural ferment and lively artistic and intellectual change. Yet O'Neill's theatrical instincts were always shaped by American stage traditions that were inextricable from his sense of himself and his own national culture. This study shows that his theatrical modernism represents not so much a break from these traditions as a reinvention of their scope and significance in the context of international stage modernism, offering an image of national culture and character that opens new possibilities for the stage while remaining rooted in its past. Kurt Eisen traces O'Neill's modernism throughout the dramatists's work: his attempts to break from the themes, plots, and moral conventions of the traditional melodramatic theatre; his experiments in stagecraft and theme, and their connection to traditional theatre and his European modernist contemporaries; the turn toward direct and indirect self-representation; and his critique of the family and of American 'pipe dreams' and the allure of success. The volume additionally features four contributed essays providing further critical perspectives on O'Neill's work, alongside a chronology of the writer's life and times.
