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Autore: |
Grace Sherrill E.
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Titolo: |
Regression and apocalypse : studies in North American literary expressionism / / Sherrill E. Grace
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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 ![]() |
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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