¿ 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.
¿ 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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Thierry Dubost is a professor at the University of Caen Normandie (France).
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Table 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
Table 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
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