Regression and Apocalypse : : Studies in North American Literary Expressionism / / Sherrill E. Grace.
Expressionism continues to fascinate scholars, and in fact has recently passed through yet another revival. From its roots in German history, aesthetics, painting, theatre, and literature, it has spread to become an international phenomenon. In this analysis of Expressionist writing by Canadian and...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Plates
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One: 'Entartete Kunst' – Modernism in Germany
- 1. Expressionism: History, Definition, and Theory
- 2. German Expressionism in the Arts
- Part Two: Expressionism on the North American Stage
- 3. The New Art of the Theatre' in New York and Toronto
- 4. Eugene O'Neill: The American Georg Kaiser
- 5. Herman Voaden's 'Symphonic Expressionism'
- Part Three: Expressionism and the Modern Novel
- 6. The Dark Night of the Soul: Djuna Barnes's Nightwood
- 7. The Soul in Writhing Anguish: Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano
- 8. Sheila Watson and the 'Double Hook' of Expressive Abstraction
- 9. The real soul-sickness': Self-Creation and the Expressionist Method in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
- Part Four: The Expressionist Legacy
- 10 From Modernism to Postmodernism: Conclusions, Speculations, and Questions
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index