Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle : : The Decisive Decade, 1924–1933 / / Doris Alexander.
In Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle, Doris Alexander gives us a new kind of inside biography that begins where the others leave off. It follows O'Neill through the door into his writing room to give a blow-by-blow account of how he fought out in his plays his great life battles—love...
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Alexander, Doris, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle : The Decisive Decade, 1924–1933 / Doris Alexander. University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [1992] ©1992 1 online resource (348 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Mystery- and the Solving of It -- Chronology of Important Events Leading Up to This Story -- 1. Desire Under the Elms -- 2. Marco Millions -- 3. The Great God Brown -- 4. Lazarus Laughed -- 5. Strange Interlude -- 6. Dynamo -- 7. Mourning Becomes Electra -- 8. Ah, Wilderness! -- 9. Days Without End -- Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- Notes -- Quotations from the Plays -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle, Doris Alexander gives us a new kind of inside biography that begins where the others leave off. It follows O'Neill through the door into his writing room to give a blow-by-blow account of how he fought out in his plays his great life battles—love against hate, doubt against belief, life against death—to an ever-expanding understanding. It presents a new kind of criticism, showing how O'Neill's most intimate struggles worked their way to resolution through the drama of his plays. Alexander reveals that he was engineering his own consciousness through his plays and solving his life problems—while the tone, imagery, and richness of the plays all came out of the nexus of memories summoned up by the urgency of the problems he faced in them. By the way of O'Neill, this study moves toward a theory of the impulse that sets off a writer's creativity, and a theory of how that impulse acts to shape a work, not only in a dramatist like O'Neill but also in the case of writers in other mediums, and even of painters and composers. The study begins with Desire Under the Elms because that play's plot was consolidated by a dream that opened up the transfixing grief that precipitated the play for O'Neill, and it ends with Days Without End when he had resolved his major emotional-philosophical struggle and created within himself the voice of his final great plays. Since the analysis brings to bear on the plays all of his conscious decisions, ideas, theories, as well as the life-and-death struggles motivating them, documenting even the final creative changes made during rehearsals, this book provides a definitive account of the nine plays analyzed in detail (Desire Under the Elms, Marco Millions, The Great God Brown, Lazarus Laughed, Strange Interlude, Dynamo, Mourning Becomes Electra, Ah, Wilderness!, and Days Without End, with additional analysis of plays written before and after. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2023) Dramatists, American 20th century Biography. LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama. bisacsh Ah Wilderness!. American. Days Without End. Desire Under the Elms. Doris Alexander. Dynamo. Lazarus Laughed. Literature. Marco Millions. Mourning Becomes Electra. O’Neill. Strange Interlude. The Decisive Decade. The Great God Brown. decisions. ideas. theories. united states. us. usa. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 9783110745269 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271072982?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271072982 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271072982/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Mystery- and the Solving of It -- Chronology of Important Events Leading Up to This Story -- 1. Desire Under the Elms -- 2. Marco Millions -- 3. The Great God Brown -- 4. Lazarus Laughed -- 5. Strange Interlude -- 6. Dynamo -- 7. Mourning Becomes Electra -- 8. Ah, Wilderness! -- 9. Days Without End -- Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- Notes -- Quotations from the Plays -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Mystery- and the Solving of It -- Chronology of Important Events Leading Up to This Story -- 1. Desire Under the Elms -- 2. Marco Millions -- 3. The Great God Brown -- 4. Lazarus Laughed -- 5. Strange Interlude -- 6. Dynamo -- 7. Mourning Becomes Electra -- 8. Ah, Wilderness! -- 9. Days Without End -- Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- Notes -- Quotations from the Plays -- Index |
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