The Ecological Eugene O'Neill
Title | The Ecological Eugene O'Neill PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Baker-White |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2015-09-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1476622191 |
The dramas of Eugene O'Neill--often called America's first "serious" playwright--exhibit an imagining of the natural world that enlivens the plays and marks the boundaries of the characters' fates. O'Neill's figures move within purposefully animated natural environments--ocean, dense forest, desert plains, the rocky soil of New England. This new approach to O'Neill's dramas explores these ecological settings as crucial to his characters' ability to carry out their conscious and unconscious desires. O'Neill's career is covered, from his youthful one-acts, to the middle years experimental dramas, to the mature tragedies of his late period. Special attention is paid to the connection of ecology and theological quest, and to O'Neill's persistent evocation of an exotic, natural "other." Combining an ecocritical approach with an examination of Classical and philosophical influences on the playwright's creative process, the author reveals a new, less hermetic O'Neill.
Environmental Assessment, Improve Utility Systems
Title | Environmental Assessment, Improve Utility Systems PDF eBook |
Author | United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site (Danville, Calif.) |
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Environmental Assessment and Draft General Management Plan for the Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site
Title | Environmental Assessment and Draft General Management Plan for the Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site PDF eBook |
Author | United States. National Park Service. Western Regional Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Buildings |
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Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site, General Management Plan (GMP)
Title | Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site, General Management Plan (GMP) PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 1991 |
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Final Environmental Impact Statement & General Management Plan
Title | Final Environmental Impact Statement & General Management Plan PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site (Calif.) |
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Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site
Title | Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site PDF eBook |
Author | United States. National Park Service. Western Regional Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 139 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Buildings |
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Eugene O'Neill and Oriental Thought
Title | Eugene O'Neill and Oriental Thought PDF eBook |
Author | James A. Robinson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Drama |
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"Off and on, of late years, I have studied the history and development of all religions with immense interest as being for me, at least, the most illuminating 'case histories' of the inner life of man."--Eugene O'Neill writing to M. C. Sparrow, 1929 While it is commonly accepted that Eugene O'Neill studied Oriental mystical religions and that this study may be detected in some of his less successful experimental plays (Lazarus Laughed, The Fountain, Marco Millions) there has not been an effort to consider systematically his "immense interest" and the influence it had on O'Neill's thought and writing. Robinson explores the tension between Occidental and Oriental elements in the playwright's art, examining both the sources of the conflict and its manifestation in selected plays written between 1916and 1942. Through an examination of O'Neill's correspondence, research library, and manuscript materials (some of which have previously been unavailable for study) Robinson is able to reveal the origins of O'Neill's Orientalism. An easy familiarity with the complex interrelationships of Eastern and Western religions and the Oriental thought that underlies the ideas of many Western philosophers, allows Robinson to address the intricate problem of Oriental influences on O'Neill's favorite Western sources, including Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Jung, Strindberg, and Emerson. Finally in a play-by-play exegesis, Robinson traces the course of O'Neill's mysticism from its apparent repudiation in the deeply flawed Dynamo to its synthesis in The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night, and Hughie, where Eastern ideas of maya, dynamic polarity, and the emptiness of the universe are again evident.