Staging Depth Eugene o'neill and the Politics of Psychological Discourse |
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| Author:
| Pfister, Joel |
| Series title: | Cultural Studies of the United States Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-4496-0 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1995 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $60.00 |
Book Description:
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Until now, Eugene O'Neill's psychological dramas have been analysed mainly by critics who relied on obvious parallels between O'Neill's life, his family, and his plays. In this theoretically expansive and interdisciplinary book, Joel Pfister reassesses what was at stake ideologically in O'Neill's staging and modernizing of'psychological' individualism for his social class.
Until now, Eugene O'Neill's psychological dramas have been analysed mainly by critics who relied on obvious parallels between O'Neill's life, his family, and his plays. In this theoretically expansive and interdisciplinary book, Joel Pfister reassesses what was at stake ideologically in O'Neill's staging and modernizing of'psychological' individualism for his social class.