{"product_id":"the-theatre-of-eugene-oneill-american-modernism-on-the-world-stage-paperback","title":"The Theatre of Eugene O'Neill: American Modernism on the World Stage - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKurt Eisen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Theatre of Eugene O'Neill \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a new comprehensive overview of O'Neill's career and plays in the context of the American theatre. Organised thematically, it considers his modernist intervention in the theatre, offers readers detailed analysis of the plays, and assesses the recent resurgence in his reputation and new approaches to staging his work. It includes a study of all his major plays-\u003ci\u003eThe Emperor Jones\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hairy Ape\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Iceman Cometh\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLong Day's Journey Into Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Moon for the Misbegotten\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDesire Under the Elms\u003c\/i\u003e-besides numerous other full length and one act dramas. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEugene O'Neill is generally credited with inventing modern American drama, in a time of cultural ferment and lively artistic and intellectual change. Yet O'Neill's theatrical instincts were always shaped by American stage traditions that were inextricable from his sense of himself and his own national culture. This study shows that his theatrical modernism represents not so much a break from these traditions as a reinvention of their scope and significance in the context of international stage modernism, offering an image of national culture and character that opens new possibilities for the stage while remaining rooted in its past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKurt Eisen traces O'Neill's modernism throughout the dramatists's work: his attempts to break from the themes, plots, and moral conventions of the traditional melodramatic theatre; his experiments in stagecraft and theme, and their connection to traditional theatre and his European modernist contemporaries; the turn toward direct and indirect self-representation; and his critique of the family and of American 'pipe dreams' and the allure of success. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe volume additionally features four contributed essays providing further critical perspectives on O'Neill's work, alongside a chronology of the writer's life and times.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKurt Eisen\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Tennessee Tech University, USA, where he teaches courses in world literature and drama. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Inner Strength of Opposites: O'Neill's Novelistic Drama\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand the Melodramatic Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), and his work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Eugene O'Neill\u003c\/i\u003e, and a variety of journals. He was a fellow of the National Critics Institute in 2001 and is a past president of the Eugene O'Neill Society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 30, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46593689092293,"sku":"9781350112490","price":76.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/VAT3gZ0peJ9781350112490.webp?v=1785076027","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-theatre-of-eugene-oneill-american-modernism-on-the-world-stage-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}