The Ecological Eugene O`Neill: Nature`s Veiled Purpose in the Plays, Robert Baker-White

Автор: Dubost Thierry
Название: Eugene O`Neill and the Reinvention of Theatre Aesthetics
ISBN: 147667728X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476677286
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Описание: Analysing a range of Eugene O`Neill`s plays, this book explores the Nobel Prize winner`s attempts at creating a new Modern play, particularly through his staging of alienation, depictions of kissing and fighting bodies, unusual uses of acoustics, and the creation of tragedy through the chorus, silence or immobility.

Автор: Nicole Seymour
Название: Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination
ISBN: 0252037626 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252037627
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Описание: In Strange Natures, Nicole Seymour investigates the ways in which contemporary queer fictions offer insight on environmental issues through their performance of a specifically queer understanding of nature, the nonhuman, and environmental degradation. By drawing upon queer theory and ecocriticism, Seymour examines how contemporary queer fictions extend their critique of "natural" categories of gender and sexuality to the nonhuman natural world, thus constructing a queer environmentalism. Seymour`s thoughtful analyses of works such as Leslie Feinberg`s Stone Butch Blues, Todd Haynes`s Safe, and Ang Lee`s Brokeback Mountain illustrate how homophobia, classism, racism, sexism, and xenophobia inform dominant views of the environment and help to justify its exploitation. Calling for a queer environmental ethics, she delineates the discourses that have worked to prevent such an ethics and argues for a concept of queerness that is attuned to environmentalism`s urgent futurity, and an environmentalism that is attuned to queer sensibilities.

Автор: Steven Bloom
Название: Eugene O`Neill
ISBN: 1429837276 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781429837279
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Описание: <p>A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to O'Neill and the critical discussions surrounding his work. </p> <p>Eugene O'Neill has the distinction, to this day, of being the only American dramatist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, which he received in 1936. The most remarkable thing about this award is that O'Neill received it before he wrote the plays that are considered his masterpieces and for which he is now best known, <em>The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night</em>, and<em> A Moon for the Misbegotten</em>. At the time he received the Nobel Prize, he had already changed the face of American drama forever, bringing both deeper subject matter and richer dramaturgical forms to an American stage that had, up until O'Neill first appeared on the theatrical scene in 1916, been limited mostly to slight comedies and superficial melodramas. His was the dominant voice in the American theatre throughout the 1920's and at least the first half of the 1930's. </p> <p>Edited by Steven Bloom, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs; Dean of Undergraduate Education and Professor of English, Lasell College, this volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the American dramatist. For readers who are studying O'Neill for the first time, a biographical sketch relates the details of his life and four essays survey the critical reception of O'Neill's work, explore its cultural and historical contexts, situate O'Neill among his contemporaries, and review key themes in his work. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the writer can then move on to other essays that explore topics like O'Neill's views on family, faith and male-female relationships; his symbolism and imagery, and his responses to the issues of his day. Works discussed include <em>Long Day's Journey into Night, Anna Christie, Strange Interlude, Ah! Wilderness</em>, and <em>The Iceman Cometh</em>. Among the contributors are Richard Eaton, Brenda Murphy, Trevor Wise, and William Davies King. </p> <p>Rounding out the volume are a chronology of O'Neill's life and a list of his principle publications as well as a bibliography for readers seeking to study this fascinating author in greater depth. </p>