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Songs of American Experience: The Vision of O'Neill and Melville

Songs of American Experience: The Vision of O'Neill and Melville

Maufort, Marc

Hardcover

Series: American University Studies, Book 24

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

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ISBN10: 0820414077
ISBN13: 9780820414072
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Jan 1 1991
Pages: 226
Language: English
This comparative literature study examines Eugene O'Neill's long neglected link with the 19th century American literary tradition. It is the first scholarly work to focus exclusively on O'Neill's kinship with novelist Herman Melville. Thus, it sheds new light on aspects of O'Neill's craftsmanship that had hitherto been considered through a European looking-glass. With Melville, the playwright shared a satirical view of American Puritanism. Like the author of Moby Dick, he developed an intensely personal concept of tragedy and was fascinated by the sea. In other words, both writers attempted, through a strikingly similar sense of vision, to define the reality with which their contemporaries were confronted and thus to create compelling songs of American experience.

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