| Contents |
Preface -- One-Introduction: "A Seagull or a Fish ..." -- O'Neill and Nature -- Oikos, Logos and Situating the Human -- Theatre and the Natural World -- Environing and Theatrical Process -- History/Theatre/Nature --Ecocritical Contexts: Pastoral and Beyond -- Organizing the Corpus: Tropes of Seeing Nature in O'Neill -- Two-Depth, Reach, Mystery: The Early Sea Plays -- Early Maritime Plays: The Perilous Ocean -- Toward Accommodation: Surviving with the Davil in "Anna Christie" -- Three-Pastorals: Complex, Alive, Possessed -- Early Land Plays: Situating the Rural -- Beyond the Horizon: Scenic Rhythms in "a land of lost grace" -- "God's in the stones": Naturalist Nature in Desire Under the Elms -- Four-Big Work: Staging the Deity -- The Hairy Ape: Spiritual Quest and Failure to Transcend -- The Great God Brown, Lazarus Laughed and Strange Interlude: "Higher, Freer" Aspirations -- Dynamo and Days Without End: Deadly "Contact" -- Five-Trade Winds in the Coco Palms: The Lure of the Exotic -- Diff'rence: Youthful Ventures in the Far Horizon -- The Doubleness of Nature in The Emperor Jones -- Strangers in Strange Lands: The Fountain and Marco Millions -- Mourning Becomes Electra: Ecology and Morality -- Six-Culminations: O'Neill's Extended Epilogue -- Ah, Wilderness! -- The Iceman Cometh -- Long Day's Journey into Night -- A Moon for the Misbegotten -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Abstract |
"O'Neill's figures move within purposefully animated natural environments--ocean, dense forest, desert plains, the rocky soil of New England. This explores ecological settings as crucial to O'Neill's characters' ability to carry out their conscious and unconscious desires. Attention is paid to the connection of ecology and theological quest, and to evocation of an exotic, natural "other.""-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-216) and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2015030330 |
| ISBN | 9780786498758 (softcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0786498757 (softcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
