The Aesthetics of Failure Dynamic Structure in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill |
|
| Author:
| Brietzke, Zander |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7864-0946-4 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2001 |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
|
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $57.00 |
Book Description:
|
Despite the fact that O'Neill is the only American playwright to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, most of his works are not good. This work examines how O'Neill's failures as a playwright are inspiring and how his disappointments reflect his own theory that tragedy requires failure.
Despite the fact that O'Neill is the only American playwright to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, most of his works are not good. This work examines how O'Neill's failures as a playwright are inspiring and how his disappointments reflect his own theory that tragedy requires failure.