
Mimetic Disillusion
Mimetic 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.
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...
Mimetic 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.
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...