Mimetic Disillusion: Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and U.S. Dramatic Realism

by Anne Fleche

Mimetic Disillusion reevaluates the history of modern U.S. drama, showing that at mid-century it turned in the direction of a poststructuralist "disillusionment with mimesis" or mimicry.

This volume focuses on two major writers of the 1930s and 1940s--Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams--one whose writing career was just ending and the other whose career was just beginning. In new readings of their major works from this period, Long...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817308385
• ISBN13: 9780817308384
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.6"