Forging a Language: A Study of the Plays of Eugene O'Neill - Brossura

Chothia, Jean

 
9780521285230: Forging a Language: A Study of the Plays of Eugene O'Neill

Sinossi

In this lucid and perceptive 1979 account of O'Neill's linguistic development as a dramatist Dr Clothia explores O'Neill's erratic career phase by phase.

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Descrizione del libro

In this lucid and perceptive 1979 account of O'Neill's linguistic development as a dramatist, Dr Clothia assesses how far he may be said to have fulfilled is obligations as a playwright, a question on which critical opinion is sharply divided. Dr Clothia explores O'Neill's erratic career phase by phase.

Contenuti

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Table showing linguistic medium of O'Neill's plays; Introduction; 1. O'Neill and the American theatre; 2. O'Neill's literary biography; 3. The American vernacular in the early plays; 4. the failure of language in the middle years; 5. The late plays and the development of 'significant form': The Iceman Cometh; 6. Significant form: Long Day's Journey Into Night; Conclusion; Appendices; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

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9780521225694: Forging a Language: A Study of the Plays of Eugene 'Neill

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521225698 ISBN 13:  9780521225694
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1979
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