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Eugene O'Neill in China : an international centenary celebration
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- Creator
- edited by Haiping Liu and Lowell Swortzell
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- New York : Greenwood Press, 1992
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 308 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780313273797, 0313273790
- OCLC
- ocm24213631
- Includes index.
- Letters of Greeting. From the People's Republic of China / Cao Yu. From the United States / Frederick C. Wilkins -- Keynote Address. O'Neill's Universal Brotherhood: A Theatre for Today's World / Virginia Floyd -- Introductions. From the People's Republic of China / Haiping Liu. From the United States / Lowell Swortzell -- Pt. 1. O'Neill's Philosophic and Religious Motifs. 1. Eugene O'Neill's Tao Te Ching: The Spiritual Evolution of a Mystic / Virginia Floyd. 2. Eugene O'Neill and Puritanism / Marcus Konick. 3. Iceman and Journey, Yin and Yang: Taoist Rhythm and O'Neill's Late Tragedies / James A. Robinson. 4. Eugene O'Neill's Marco Millions: Desiring Marginality and the Dematerialization of the Orient / James S. Moy. 5. O'Neill's Understanding of Chinese Thought in Marco Millions / Gang Li. 6. The Uses of Pessimism: Some Random Thoughts about Eugene O'Neill / Zhiji Ren -- Pt. 2. O'Neill in Comparison. 7. Strutctures of Forgiveness: The Endings of A Moon for the Misbegotten and Ibsen's Peer Gynt / Rolf Fjelde. 8. Politics and a Proletarian Tragedy: A Comparative Analysis of the Reception of Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape in Germany and the United States / Ward B. Lewis. 9. Eternal Recurrence and the Shaping of O'Neill's Dramatic Structures / Albert E. Kalson and Lisa M. Schwerdt. 10. Leo Tolstoy's The Power of Darkness and Eugene O'Neill's Desire under the Elms: A Road to Redemption / Maya Koreneva -- Pt. 3. O'Neill as Playwright. 11. Eugene O'Neill, World Playwright: The Beginnings / Paul Voelker. 12. Three O'Neill Women: An Emergent Pattern / Jean Anne Waterstradt. 13. Author, Actor, Audience: The Metatheatrical Elements in the Late Plays of Eugene O'Neill / Mariko Hori. 14. Eugene O'Neill's Dynamo and the Expressionist Canon / William R. Elwood. 15. The Black World of Eugene O'Neill / Thomas D. Pawley. 16. Building Characters: Eugene O'Neill's Composition Process / Judith E. Barlow. 17. Register and Idiolect in The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey into Night / Jean Chothia. 18. Mirrors of Consciousness: Narrative Patterns in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh / Marc Maufort -- Pt. 4. O'Neill on Stage. 19. Eugene O'Neill and the Provincetown Players: Watershed in American Theatre / Robert K. Sarlos. 20. Dramatic Tension Between Expressionistic Design and Naturalistic Acting in The Emperor Jones / Felicia Hardison Londre. 21. The Emperor Jones as a Source of Theatrical Experimentation, 1920s-1980s / Lowell Swortzell. 22. The Iceman Cometh Twice: A Comparison of the 1946 and 1956 New York Productions / Daniel J. Watermeier. 23. Directing the Plays of Eugene O'Neill -- Style, Substance, and Synthesis / Betty Jean Jones. 24. All God's Chillun Play Games / Marcelline Krafchick -- Pt. 5. O'Neill Abroad. 25. Ingmar Bergman and Long Day's Journey into Night / Egil Tornquist. 26. How Does O'Neill Fare in China? / Wenpei Long. 27. Two Popular O'Neill Plays Staged in Japan: Ah, Wilderness! and Desire under the Elms / Yasuko Ikeuchi. 28. Directing Mourning Becomes Electra in Japan / Yoshiteru Kurokawa. 29. O'Neill in a Chinese Classroom: Before Breakfast -- A Good Starting Point / Jianqui Sun. 30. Panel Discussion on the Nanjing O'Neill Theatre Festival -- OǸeill: An International Perspective -- A Bibliographic Note