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...

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Main Author:	Fleche, Anne (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Tuscaloosa [u.a.] Univ. of Alabama Press 1997
Subjects:	O'Neill, Eugene <1888-1953> - Critique et interprétation Williams, Tennessee <1911-1983> - Critique et interprétation O'Neill, Eugene <1888-1953> > Criticism and interpretation Williams, Tennessee <1911-1983> > Criticism and interpretation O'Neill, Eugene > 1888-1953 Williams, Tennessee > 1911-1983 Geschichte 1900-2000 Amerikaans Realisme (letterkunde) Réalisme dans la littérature Théâtre américain - 20e siècle - Histoire et critique Toneelstukken Drama American drama > 20th century > History and criticism Realism in literature Realismus USA
Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	X, 134 S.
ISBN:	0817308385