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Eugene O'Neill's America desire under democracy /

Main Author: Diggins, John P.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Subjects:
O'Neill, Eugene, > 1888-1953.
O'Neill, Eugene, > 1888-1953 > Criticism and interpretation.
Dramatists, American > 20th century
Dramatists, American > Family relationships. > 20th century
Dramatists, American > Psychology. > 20th century
America > In literature.
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10266057
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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