Title:
Eugene O'Neill / editor, Steven F. Bloom.
Author:
Bloom, Steven F. (Steven Fredric), 1951-
Publication Information:
Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, ©2013.
Call Number:
PS3529.N5 Z6345 2013
Abstract:
For readers who are studying O'Neill for the first time, a biographical sketch relates the details of his life and four essays survey the critical reception of O'Neill's work, explore its cultural and historical contexts, situate O'Neill among his contemporaries, and review key themes in his work. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the writer can then move on to other essays that explore topics like O'Neill's views on family, faith and male-female relationships; his symbolism and imagery, and his responses to the issues of his day. Works discussed include Long Day's Journey into Night, Anna Christie, Strange Interlude, Ah! Wilderness, and The Iceman Cometh. -- Publisher's website.
ISBN:
9781429837279
Series:
Critical insights
Critical insights.
Physical Description:
xiii, 292 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
On Eugene O'Neill / Biography of Eugene O'Neill / Playwright of the modern world : Eugene O'Neill in context / The critical reception of the works of Eugene O'Neill / A rhetorical approach to O'Neill's early wife characters / O'Neill and the lost generation : O'Neill's Strange Interlude and Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms / "A dense fog lies heavily upon the still sea" : O'Neill's sense of place / Eugene O'Neill's tryst with the power of blackness / Understanding tragedy in five O'Neill plays / The impossible representation of an ideal America in Ah, Wilderness! / O'Neill's choric designs in The Iceman Cometh / Composing memory in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night / Family dynamics in O'Neill's drama : the diseased body in Long Day's Journey into Night / O'Neill and autobiography / O'Neill and the Nobel / Acting misbegotten : the creative journey to O'Neill / The genius of fog : notes on O'Neill
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