{"product_id":"mimetic-disillusion-anne-fleche-9780817308384","title":"Mimetic Disillusion: Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and U.S. Dramatic Realism","description":"\u003cp\u003eMimetic 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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, \u003ci\u003eLong Day's Journey into Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Iceman Cometh\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Menagerie\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Streetcar Named Desire\u003c\/i\u003e, Fleche develops connections to the writings of Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, and Michel Foucault, among others, and discusses poststructuralism in the light of modern writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Antonin Artaud, and Walter Benjamin. Fleche also extends this discussion to the work of two contemporary playwrights, Adrienne Kennedy and Tony Kushner. The aim of Mimetic Disillusion is not to reject \"mimetic\" and \"realistic\" readings but to explore the rich complexities of these two ideas and the fruit of their ongoing relevance to U.S. theatre.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anne Fleche\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817308385\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817308384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.56h x 5.53w x 0.42d","brand":"Anne Fleche","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48112763371775,"sku":"9780817308384","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_58f9b5df-a0d3-4429-8098-b81cc4325866.jpg?v=1769610763","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mimetic-disillusion-anne-fleche-9780817308384","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}