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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806898303321

Autore

Fleche Anne

Titolo

Mimetic disillusion : Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and U.S. dramatic realism / / Anne Fleche

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1997

ISBN

0-8173-8185-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (148 p.)

Disciplina

812/.5209

Soggetti

American drama - 20th century - History and criticism

Realism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-130) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and US. Dramatic Theory, 1935-1947; 2. Long Day's Journey into Night: The Seen and the Unseen; 3. The Iceman Cometh: Buying Time; 4. The Glass Menagerie: Loss and Space; 5. A Streetcar Named Desire: Spatial Violation and Sexual Violence; Afterword; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Mimetic Disillusion reevaluates the history of modern U.S. drama, showing that at mid-century it turned in the direction of a poststructuralist ""disillusionment with mimesis"" or mimicry.   This volume focuses on two major writers of the 1930's and 1940's--Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams--one whose writing career was just ending and the other whose career was just beginning. In new readings of their major works from this period, Long Day's Journey into Night, The Iceman Cometh, The Glass Menagerie, and A Streetcar Named Desire, Fleche