{"product_id":"9780817381851","title":"Mimetic Disillusion: Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and U.S. Dramatic Realism","description":"\u003cp\u003eMimetic Disillusion reevaluates the history of modern U.S. drama, showing that at mid-century it turned in the direction of a poststructuralist \"disillusionment with mimesis\" or mimicry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This volume focuses on two major writers of the 1930s and 1940s--Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams--one whose writing career was just ending and the other whose career was just beginning. In new readings of their major works from this period, \u003ci\u003eLong Day's Journey into Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Iceman Cometh\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Menagerie\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Streetcar Named Desire\u003c\/i\u003e, Fleche develops connections to the writings of Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, and Michel Foucault, among others, and discusses poststructuralism in the light of modern writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Antonin Artaud, and Walter Benjamin. Fleche also extends this discussion to the work of two contemporary playwrights, Adrienne Kennedy and Tony Kushner. The aim of Mimetic Disillusion is not to reject \"mimetic\" and \"realistic\" readings but to explore the rich complexities of these two ideas and the fruit of their ongoing relevance to U.S. theatre.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47110663340272,"sku":"9780817381851","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780817381851_p0.jpg?v=1763742488","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780817381851","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}