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Until now, Eugene ONeills psychological dramas have been analyzed mainly by critics who relied on obvious parallels between ONeills life, his family, and his plays. In this theoretically expansive and interdisciplinary book, Joel Pfister reassesses what was at stake ideologically in ONeills staging and modernizing of psychological individualism for his social class.
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Staging Depth : Eugene O'Neill and the Politics of Psychological Discourse Cultural Studies of the United States
author
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Pfister, Joel.
publisher
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University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
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0807821861
print isbn13
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9780807821862
ebook isbn13
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9780807863855
language
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English
subject
O'Neill, Eugene,--1888-1953--Knowledge--Psychology, Literature and society--United States--History--20th century, Domestic drama, American--History and criticism, Drama--Psychological aspects, Middle class in literature, Psychology in literature, Family i
publication date
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1995
lcc
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PS3529.N5Z7742 1995eb
ddc
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812/.52
subject
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O'Neill, Eugene,--1888-1953--Knowledge--Psychology, Literature and society--United States--History--20th century, Domestic drama, American--History and criticism, Drama--Psychological aspects, Middle class in literature, Psychology in literature, Family i
Page ii
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Robert C. Allen
Hazel Carby
Karen Halttunen
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Janice Radway
Jeffrey C. Stewart
Cultural Studies of the United States Alan Trachtenberg, editor
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Staging Depth
Eugene O'Neill And The Politics Of Psychological Discourse
Joel Pfister
The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill and London
Page iv
1995 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pfister, Joel. Staging depth: Eugene O'Neill and the politics of psychological discourse / by Joel Pfister. p. cm.(Cultural studies of the United States) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8078-2186-1 (cloth : alk. paper). ISBN 0-8078-4496-9 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953KnowledgePsychology. 2. Literature and societyUnited StatesHistory 20th century. 3. Domestic drama, American History and criticism. 4. Middle class in literature. 5. Psychology in literature. 6. Family in literature. I. Title. II. Series.
PS3529.N5Z7742 1995 812'.52dc20
94-26336 CIP
Page v
FOR KRISTI, MY SISTER, AND FOR JORDAN, MY BROTHER
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Contents
Foreword
by Alan Trachtenberg
xi
Acknowledgments
xv
Chronology
xix
Introduction: The Profession of "Depth"
1
1
Beyond Biography
O'Neill and the Making of the Psychological Family
15
The Psychological Dyad in the "Land of the Mother Complex"
32
The Historicity of Ambivalence
40
2
"Depth" as a Mass-Cultural Category
Pop Psychology, the Professional-Managerial Class, and the Aesthetic of Depth
53
The Therapeutic Playwright and Therapeutic Theatre
57
The Production of "Psychological" Common Sense for the Professional-Managerial Class
63
The Psychological as a Political and Historical Category
91
O'Neill's Critique of Psychological Discourse and Iceman
98
3
The Ideological Work of "Depth"
O'Neill and the American Left
105
Workers, Race, and Psychological Primitives
108
O'Neill and the Anarchist-Feminist Critique of Personal Life
139
The Propaganda of "Life"
154
O'Neill, the Left, and Social Depth
162
Ah, Wilderness! and the Reproduction of the Middle Class
168
Possessors, Self-dispossessed
182
Page viii
4
THE TRAPPINGS OF THEATRE, GENDER, AND DESIRE
Glaspell and O'Neill
187
Glaspell and the Cultural Fashioning of Gender and Desire
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