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Eugene o'Neill and the Reinvention of Theatre Aesthetics by Thierry Dubost (2019, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
ISBN-10147667728X
ISBN-139781476677286
eBay Product ID (ePID)27038376920
Product Key Features
Number of Pages277 Pages
Publication NameEugene O'neill and the Reinvention of Theatre Aesthetics
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2019
SubjectDrama, Theater / History & Criticism, American / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorThierry Dubost
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Drama, Performing Arts
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight17 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2019-942368
Reviews"A worthy sequel to Thierry Dubost's first book on O'Neill.... Dubost's finest insight in this excellent book is his tracing of the development of O'Neill's ideas about the tragedy of the inevitable human experience of elusiveness and loss--of the inability to sustain a sense of fulfillment and belonging.... This book makes it easy to see how O'Neill set the thematic direction for much of later American drama, especially the plays of Edward Albee and Sam Shepard, and the ease with which theatre could move from O'Neill's vision of tragedy to Beckett's vision of the absurd."-- The Eugene O'Neill Review, "A worthy sequel to Thierry Dubost's first book on O'Neill.... Dubost's finest insight in this excellent book is his tracing of the development of O'Neill's ideas about the tragedy of the inevitable human experience of elusiveness and loss--of the inability to sustain a sense of fulfillment and belonging.... This book makes it easy to see how O'Neill set the thematic direction for much of later American drama, especially the plays of Edward Albee and Sam Shepard, and the ease with which theatre could move from O'Neill's vision of tragedy to Beckett's vision of the absurd."-- The Eugene O'Neill Review "Each chapter of Dubost's book, spanning O'Neill's entire canon, bursts with unexpected and resonant insights on the playwright's evolving aesthetic and dramaturgy that reflect the very quality Dubost argues defines O'Neill's brilliance and stature...innovative."--Steven F. Bloom, author of The Student Companion to Eugene O'Neill and Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Eugene O'Neill Society"Dubost analyzes O'Neill's progression as a playwright from his early one-act plays to A Moon for the Misbegotten in the most comprehensive study since Travis Bogard's Contour in Time ."-- Zander Brietzke, author of The Aesthetics of Failure: Dynamic Structure in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill, "Each chapter of Dubost's book, spanning O'Neill's entire canon, bursts with unexpected and resonant insights on the playwright's evolving aesthetic and dramaturgy that reflect the very quality Dubost argues defines O'Neill's brilliance and stature...innovative."--Steven F. Bloom, author of The Student Companion to Eugene O'Neill and Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Eugene O'Neill Society; "Dubost analyzes O'Neill's progression as a playwright from his early one-act plays to A Moon for the Misbegotten in the most comprehensive study since Travis Bogard's Contour in Time ."-- Zander Brietzke, author of The Aesthetics of Failure: Dynamic Structure in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill, "Each chapter of Dubost's book, spanning O'Neill's entire canon, bursts with unexpected and resonant insights on the playwright's evolving aesthetic and dramaturgy that reflect the very quality Dubost argues defines O'Neill's brilliance and stature--innovative."--Steven F. Bloom, author of The Student Companion to Eugene O'Neill and Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Eugene O'Neill Society; "Dubost analyzes O'Neill's progression as a playwright from his early one-act plays to A Moon for the Misbegotten in the most comprehensive study since Travis Bogard's Contour in Time ."-- Zander Brietzke, author of The Aesthetics of Failure: Dynamic Structure in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill, "A worthy sequel to Thierry Dubost's first book on O'Neill.... Dubost's finest insight in this excellent book is his tracing of the development of O'Neill's ideas about the tragedy of the inevitable human experience of elusiveness and loss--of the inability to sustain a sense of fulfillment and belonging.... This book makes it easy to see how O'Neill set the thematic direction for much of later American drama, especially the plays of Edward Albee and Sam Shepard, and the ease with which theatre could move from O'Neill's vision of tragedy to Beckett's vision of the absurd."-- The Eugene O'Neill Review ; "Each chapter of Dubost's book, spanning O'Neill's entire canon, bursts with unexpected and resonant insights on the playwright's evolving aesthetic and dramaturgy that reflect the very quality Dubost argues defines O'Neill's brilliance and stature...innovative."--Steven F. Bloom, author of The Student Companion to Eugene O'Neill and Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Eugene O'Neill Society; "Dubost analyzes O'Neill's progression as a playwright from his early one-act plays to A Moon for the Misbegotten in the most comprehensive study since Travis Bogard's Contour in Time ."-- Zander Brietzke, author of The Aesthetics of Failure: Dynamic Structure in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill, "Excellent"-- The Eugene O'Neill Review ; "Each chapter of Dubost's book, spanning O'Neill's entire canon, bursts with unexpected and resonant insights on the playwright's evolving aesthetic and dramaturgy that reflect the very quality Dubost argues defines O'Neill's brilliance and stature...innovative."--Steven F. Bloom, author of The Student Companion to Eugene O'Neill and Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Eugene O'Neill Society; "Dubost analyzes O'Neill's progression as a playwright from his early one-act plays to A Moon for the Misbegotten in the most comprehensive study since Travis Bogard's Contour in Time ."-- Zander Brietzke, author of The Aesthetics of Failure: Dynamic Structure in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill, "Each chapter of Dubost's book, spanning O'Neill's entire canon, bursts with unexpected and resonant insights on the playwright's evolving aesthetic and dramaturgy that reflect the very quality Dubost argues defines O'Neill's brilliance and stature...innovative."--Steven F. Bloom, author of The Student Companion to Eugene O'Neill and Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Eugene O'Neill Society, "Dubost analyzes O'Neill's progression as a playwright from his early one-act plays to A Moon for the Misbegotten in the most comprehensive study since Travis Bogard's Contour in Time ."-- Zander Brietzke, author of The Aesthetics of Failure: Dynamic Structure in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill, "A worthy sequel to Thierry Dubost's first book on O'Neill.... Dubost's finest insight in this excellent book is his tracing of the development of O'Neill's ideas about the tragedy of the inevitable human experience of elusiveness and loss--of the inability to sustain a sense of fulfillment and belonging...This book makes it easy to see how O'Neill set the thematic direction for much of later American drama, especially the plays of Edward Albee and Sam Shepard, and the ease with which theatre could move from O'Neill's vision of tragedy to Beckett's vision of the absurd."-- The Eugene O'Neill Review "Each chapter of Dubost's book, spanning O'Neill's entire canon, bursts with unexpected and resonant insights on the playwright's evolving aesthetic and dramaturgy that reflect the very quality Dubost argues defines O'Neill's brilliance and stature...innovative."--Steven F. Bloom, author of The Student Companion to Eugene O'Neill and Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Eugene O'Neill Society"Dubost analyzes O'Neill's progression as a playwright from his early one-act plays to A Moon for the Misbegotten in the most comprehensive study since Travis Bogard's Contour in Time ."-- Zander Brietzke, author of The Aesthetics of Failure: Dynamic Structure in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill
Dewey Edition23
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal812/.52
Table Of ContentTable of Contents Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Aristotle Got His Gun: From A Wife for a Life, Now I Ask You! [...] to A Touch of the Poet 2. Thirst: A Theatrical Appetizer 3. Human and Aesthetic Migrations in Fog 4. Bound East for Cardiff, an Immobile Crossing 5. The Movie Man: The Failure of Aesthetics? 6. Servitude: Portrait of the Artist as a Committed Playwright 7. Before Breakfast: An Overemphasized Monologue? 8. Exorcism: The Road Not Taken 9. "Harmless Foights" in the Sea Plays 10. Home, Elsewhere: Tragic (Im)mobility in Beyond the Horizon 11. Madness in Where the Cross Is Made and Gold 12. A Long, Long Kiss: Labial Contacts in The Straw, Diff'rent, The First Man, The Fountain and Welded 13. The Aesthetics of (Fake) Salvation in "Anna Christie" 14. The Emperor Jones: Inventing a New Dramaturgy 15. The Hairy Ape: An Orphean Journey into Thought 16. A Playwright-Director Staging The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 17. A Thing Is Not Just a Thing: An Uncanny Stage Presence in All God's Chillun Got Wings 18. Opaque or Transparent Representations of Desire in Desire Under the Elms 19. Home Away from Home: Greed in Marco Millions 20. The Great God Brown: Shedding Old-Fashioned Staging Models? 21. Lazarus Laughed and Dynamo: Nonverbal Communications 22. Strange Interlude: Exposing the Invisible 23. The Ways of the Flesh in Mourning Becomes Electra 24. A Kierkegaardian Comedy: The Painless Contradictions of Festive Meal in Ah, Wilderness! 25. Days Without End: A Modern Miracle Play? 26. The Origin of a World: Male Privacy and Tragedy in A Touch of the Poet 27. A Garden of One's Own: Heterotopia in More Stately Mansions 28. O'Neill's Choric Designs in The Iceman Cometh 29. Long Day's Journey into Night: Words for the Birth of a Ghostly Irish Playwright 30. Hughie, Written More to Be Read Than Staged? 31. The Road to Salvation in A Moon for the Misbegotten Conclusion Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisAnalysing a range of Eugene O'Neill's plays, this book explores the Nobel Prize winner's attempts at creating a new Modern play, particularly through his staging of alienation, depictions of kissing and fighting bodies, unusual uses of acoustics, and the creation of tragedy through the chorus, silence or immobility., The plays of Eugene O'Neill testify to his continued search for new dramatic strategies. The author explores the Nobel Prize winner's attempts at creating a new Modern play. He shows how, moving away from melodrama or "the problem play," O'Neill revisited the classical frames of drama and reinvented theater aesthetics by resorting to masks, the chorus, acoustics, silence or immobility for the creation of his dramatic works.
LC Classification NumberPS3529.N5Z62847 2019
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