1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910964351303321

Autore

Diggins John P

Titolo

Eugene O'Neill's America : desire under democracy / / John Patrick Diggins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007

ISBN

9786611959562

9781281959560

1281959561

9780226148823

0226148823

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Disciplina

812/.52

B

Soggetti

Dramatists, American - 20th century

Dramatists, American - 20th century - Family relationships

Dramatists, American - 20th century - Psychology

America 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. [267]-282) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Knowers unknown to ourselves -- The misery of the misbegotten -- The playwright as thinker -- Anarchism: the politics of the "long loneliness" -- Beginnings of American history -- "Lust for possession" -- Possessed and self-dispossessed -- "Is you a nigger, nigger?" -- "The merest sham": women and marriage -- Religion and the death of death -- "The Greek dream in tragedy is the noblest ever" -- Waiting for hickey -- The theater as temple.

Sommario/riassunto

In the face of seemingly relentless American optimism, Eugene O'Neill's plays reveal an America many would like to ignore, a place of seething resentments, aching desires, and family tragedy, where failure and disappointment are the norm and the American dream a chimera. Though derided by critics during his lifetime, his works resonated with audiences, won him the Nobel Prize and four Pulitzer, and continue to grip theatergoers today. Now noted historian John Patrick Diggins



offers a masterly biography that both traces O'Neill's tumultuous life and explains the forceful ideas that form the heart of his unflinching works. Diggins paints a richly detailed portrait of the playwright's life, from his Irish roots and his early years at sea to his relationships with his troubled mother and brother. Here we see O'Neill as a young Greenwich Village radical, a ravenous autodidact who attempted to understand the disjunction between the sunny public face of American life and the rage that he knew was simmering beneath. According to Diggins, O'Neill mined this disjunction like no other American writer. His characters burn with longing for an idealized future composed of equal parts material success and individual freedom, but repeatedly they fall back to earth, pulled by the tendrils of family and the insatiability of desire. Drawing on thinkers from Emerson to Nietzsche, O'Neill viewed this endlessly frustrated desire as the problematic core of American democracy, simultaneously driving and undermining American ideals of progress, success, and individual freedom. Melding a penetrating assessment of O'Neill's works and thought with a sensitive re-creation of his life, Eugene O'Neill's America offers a striking new view of America's greatest playwright-and a new picture of American democracy itself.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910913793203321

Autore

Singh Yashwant

Titolo

Proceedings of International Conference on Recent Innovations in Computing : ICRIC 2023, Volume 3 / / edited by Yashwant Singh, Paulo J. Sequeira Gonçalves, Pradeep Kumar Singh, Maheshkumar H. Kolekar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

9789819778621

981977862X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (572 pages)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, , 1876-1119 ; ; 1196

Altri autori (Persone)

GonçalvesPaulo J. Sequeira

SinghPradeep Kumar

KolekarMaheshkumar H

Disciplina

006.3

Soggetti

Computational intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Data protection

Computer networks - Security measures

Cloud computing

Computational Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Data and Information Security

Mobile and Network Security

Cloud Computing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book features selected papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Recent Innovations in Computing (ICRIC 2023), held on 26–27 October 2023 at the Central University of Jammu, India, and organized by the university’s Department of Computer Science and Information Technology. The book is divided into two volumes, and it includes the latest research in the areas of software engineering, cloud computing, computer networks and Internet technologies, artificial intelligence, information security, database and distributed computing,



and digital India.