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" Mimetic disillusion : "
Anne Fleche
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636813
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Fleche, Anne
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Mimetic disillusion : : Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and U.S. dramatic realism /\ Anne Fleche
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x, 134 pages ;; 22 cm
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0817308385
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: 9780817308384
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-130) and index
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1. Introduction: Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and U.S. Dramatic Theory, 1935-1947 -- 2. Long Day's Journey into Night: The Seen and the Unseen -- 3. The Iceman Cometh: Buying Time -- 4. The Glass Menagerie: Loss and Space -- 5. A Streetcar Named Desire: Spatial Violation and Sexual Violence
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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
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O'Neill, Eugene,1888-1953-- Criticism and interpretation
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Williams, Tennessee,1911-1983-- Criticism and interpretation
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American drama-- 20th century-- History and criticism
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Realism in literature
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Réalisme dans la littérature
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Théâtre américain - 20e siècle - Histoire et critique
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812/.5209
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PS338.R42F58 1997
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