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Staging Depth: Eugene O'Neill and the Politics of Psychological Discourse (Cultural Studies of the United States) - Hardcover
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Until now, Eugene O'Neill's psychological dramas have been analyzed 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. Pfister examines the history of the middle-class family and of Freudian pop psychology in the 1910s and 1920s to reconstruct the cultural conditions for the imagining and popularizing of 'depth,' a trope that was central to O'Neill's dramatic vision. He also recovers provocative critiques by contemporary critics on the Left who challenged O'Neill's preoccupation with dramatizing psychological, familial, and aesthetic 'depth.' One of the few sustained works on O'Neill in recent years, this wide-ranging book makes a major contribution to cultural studies, to the history of subjectivity, and to scholarship on the ideological origins of modernism and modern American drama.
Originally published in 1995.
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"Pfister restores a much-needed cultural breadth to a field of scholarship now dominated by formal, biographical, and thematic approaches to O'Neill's work. . . . A significant contribution to the study of American cultural history."-- Choice
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Until now, Eugene O'Neill's psychological dramas have been analyzed 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.
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- PublisherUniv of North Carolina Pr
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0807821861
- ISBN 13 9780807821862
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
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Staging Depth: Eugene O'neill and the Politics of Psychological Discourse (Cultural Studies of the United States) [Hardcover] Pfister, Joel
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