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Regression and apocalypse : studies in North American literary expressionism

Title
Regression and apocalypse : studies in North American literary expressionism / Sherrill E. Grace.
Author
Grace, Sherrill, 1944-
Publication
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©1989.

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Description
xii, 318 pages, [30] pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
Subject
  • Universidad Sergio Arboleda
  • 1900-1999
  • Geschichte 1950-1985
  • Geschichte 1900-1930
  • American drama > 20th century > History and criticism
  • American fiction (English) > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Expressionism in literature
  • Canadian drama > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Canadian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Canadian fiction
  • Canadian drama
  • American fiction
  • American drama
  • Expressionism in literature
  • Englisch
  • Expressionismus
  • Literatur
  • Kanada
  • USA
  • Englisch
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 297-308.
Contents
pt. 1. 'Entartete Kunst' : modernism in Germany. 1. Expressionism : history, definition, and theory. 2. German Expressionism in the arts -- pt. 2. Expressionism on the North American stage. 3. 'The new art of the theater' in New York and Toronto. 4. Eugene O'Neill : the American Georg Kaiser. 5. Herman Voaden's 'symphonic Expressionism' -- pt. 3. Expressionism and the modern novel. 6. The dark night of the soul : Djuna Barnes's Nightwood. 7. The soul in writhing anguish : Malcolm Lowry's Under the volcano. 8. Sheila Watson and the 'double hook' of expressive abstraction. 9. 'The real soul-sickness' : self-creation and the Expressionist method in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- pt. 4. The Expressionist legacy. 10. From Modernism to Postmodernism : conclusions, speculations, and questions.
ISBN
  • 0802058167
  • 9780802058164
LCCN
x281032792
OCLC
  • ocm19849843
  • 19849843
  • SCSB-1901316
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library