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Mimetic Disillusion: Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, and U.S. Dramatic Realism
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Artikel-Nr:
9780817308384
Veröffentl:
1997
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.01.1997
Seiten:
152
Autor:
Anne Fleche
Gewicht:
227 g
Format:
217x140x11 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Anne Fleche is Assistant Professor of English at Boston College.
Mimetic Disillusion reevaluates the history of modern U.S. drama in general and the dramatic art of O'Neill and Williams specifically, showing how at mid-century drama in America shifted away from representational theatre, toward a poststructuralist "disillusionment" with mimesis. The book focuses on two major writers of the 1930s and 1940s - 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 of this period, Long Day's Journey into Night, The Iceman Cometh, The Glass Menagerie, and A Streetcar Named Desire, Fleche develops connections to the writings of Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, and Michel Foucault, among others, and discusses poststructuralism in the light of such modern writers as Bertolt Brecht, Antonin Artaud, and Walter Benjamin.