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Regression and apocalypse : studies in North American literary expressionism / / Sherrill E. Grace



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Autore: Grace Sherrill E. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Regression and apocalypse : studies in North American literary expressionism / / Sherrill E. Grace Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1989
©1989
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (363 p.)
Disciplina: 812.509
Soggetto topico: American drama - 20th century - History and criticism
Expressionism in literature
Soggetto geografico: Englisch
USA
Kanada
Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: Working from a set of topoi and structural paradigms, Grace discusses selected examples of expressionistic texts.
Titolo autorizzato: Regression and apocalypse  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-03971-7
9786612039713
1-4426-7915-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813181903321
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