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  1. Eugene O'Neill's America
    desire under democracy
    Erschienen: 2007
    Verlag:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    In the face of seemingly relentless American optimism, Eugene O?Neill's plays reveal an America many would like to ignore, a place of seething resentments, aching desires, and family tragedy, where failure and disappointment are the norm and the... mehr

    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    In the face of seemingly relentless American optimism, Eugene O?Neill's plays reveal an America many would like to ignore, a place of seething resentments, aching desires, and family tragedy, where failure and disappointment are the norm and the American dream a chimera. Though derided by critics during his lifetime, his works resonated with audiences, won him the Nobel Prize and four Pulitzer, and continue to grip theatergoers today. Now noted historian John Patrick Diggins offers a masterly biography that both traces O?Neill?s tumultuous life and explains the forceful ideas that form the hea.

     

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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780226148823; 0226148823; 1281959561; 9781281959560
    RVK Klassifikation: HU 4635
    Weitere Schlagworte: O'Neill, Eugene (1888-1953)
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 305 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-282) and index

  2. Eugene O'Neill's America
    desire under democracy
    Erschienen: 2007
    Verlag:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0226148823; 9780226148823
    Schlagworte: DRAMA / American; Nationale identiteit; Politieke ideeën; Nationalbewusstsein; Dramatists, American; Dramatists, American; Dramatists, American
    Weitere Schlagworte: O'Neill, Eugene / 1888-1953; O'Neill, Eugene (1888-1953); O'Neill, Eugene (1888-1953); O'Neill, Eugene (1888-1953)
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 305 p.)
    Bemerkung(en):

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-282) and index

    Knowers unknown to ourselves -- The misery of the misbegotten -- The playwright as thinker -- Anarchism: the politics of the "long loneliness" -- Beginnings of American history -- "Lust for possession" -- Possessed and self-dispossessed -- "Is you a nigger, nigger?" -- "The merest sham": women and marriage -- Religion and the death of death -- "The Greek dream in tragedy is the noblest ever" -- Waiting for hickey -- The theater as temple

    In the face of seemingly relentless American optimism, Eugene O?Neill's plays reveal an America many would like to ignore, a place of seething resentments, aching desires, and family tragedy, where failure and disappointment are the norm and the American dream a chimera. Though derided by critics during his lifetime, his works resonated with audiences, won him the Nobel Prize and four Pulitzer, and continue to grip theatergoers today. Now noted historian John Patrick Diggins offers a masterly biography that both traces O?Neill?s tumultuous life and explains the forceful ideas that form the hea