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Forging a Language: A Study of the Plays of Eugene 'Neill

Forging a Language: A Study of the Plays of Eugene 'Neill

Forging a Language: A Study of the Plays of Eugene 'Neill Paperback / softback - 1982

by Jean Chothia

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Paperback / softback. New. In this lucid and perceptive 1979 account of O'Neill's linguistic development as a dramatist, Dr Clothia assesses how far he may be said to have fulfilled is obligations as a playwright, a question on which critical opinion is sharply divided. Dr Clothia explores O'Neill's erratic career phase by phase.
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  • Title Forging a Language: A Study of the Plays of Eugene 'Neill
  • Author Jean Chothia
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date 1982-01-21
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780521285230
  • ISBN 9780521285230 / 0521285232
  • Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.58 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.47 cm)
  • Category Plays / Drama
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 78073239
  • Dewey Decimal Code 812.52
  • Quantity available 10

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What must dramatic language do? Jean Chothia suggests it must shape our apprehension of individual character, at the same time conveying more to the audience than to the other characters; it must present us with a continually developing action as each speech emphasises or modifies our perception of what has gone before; and the action and staging must be so related to the dramatic language that they become its necessary complement in our experience of the play. In this lucid and perceptive 1979 account of O'Neill's linguistic development as a dramatist, Dr Chothia assesses how far he may be said to have fulfilled these obligations, a question on which critical opinion is sharply divided. Dr Chothia explores O'Neill's erratic career phase by phase, his use of literary models, his mastery of a wide range of registers from Swedish to Irish immigrant, as well as the imagery he forged amongst other things.
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