Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle: The Decisive Decade, 1924-1933

by Doris Alexander

Overview

In Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle, Doris Alexander gives us a new kind of inside biography that begins where the others leave off.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780271072968
Publisher:	Penn State University Press
Publication date:	04/15/1992
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	348
File size:	839 KB

About the Author

After teaching at the City University of New York for many years, Doris Alexander is an independent scholar living in Italy. She is the author of, most recently, Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle (Penn State, 1992) and Creating Characters with Charles Dickens (Penn State, 1991).

Editorial Reviews

Alexander forges a kind of psychoanlytic criticism, showing how O'Neill's most personal struggles groped toward resolution through the writing of this plays. Her study moves beyond O'Neill himself in the direction of a theory of the artist's creative spark, and how that impulse acts to shape a work. Provides a detailed account of nine plays, from Desire Under the Elms to Days Without End. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Eugene O’Neill’s Creative Struggles will become one of the handful of standard studies of O’Neill’s life and work.”

—Frederick C. Wilkins

“A unique and extremely valuable work. Reading this book is also a delightful experience—the imaginative quality of the scholarship is dazzling.”

—William J. Fisher, Rutgers University

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