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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Plates ix
- Preface xi
- Introduction 1
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Part One: 'Entartete Kunst' – Modernism in Germany
- 1. Expressionism: History, Definition, and Theory 11
- 2. German Expressionism in the Arts 43
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Part Two: Expressionism on the North American Stage
- 3. The New Art of the Theatre' in New York and Toronto 71
- 4. Eugene O'Neill: The American Georg Kaiser 82
- 5. Herman Voaden's 'Symphonic Expressionism' 117
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Part Three: Expressionism and the Modern Novel
- 6. The Dark Night of the Soul: Djuna Barnes's Nightwood 141
- 7. The Soul in Writhing Anguish: Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano 163
- 8. Sheila Watson and the 'Double Hook' of Expressive Abstraction 185
- 9. The real soul-sickness': Self-Creation and the Expressionist Method in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man 210
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Part Four: The Expressionist Legacy
- 10 From Modernism to Postmodernism: Conclusions, Speculations, and Questions 229
- Notes 247
- Select Bibliography 297
- Index 309
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Plates ix
- Preface xi
- Introduction 1
-
Part One: 'Entartete Kunst' – Modernism in Germany
- 1. Expressionism: History, Definition, and Theory 11
- 2. German Expressionism in the Arts 43
-
Part Two: Expressionism on the North American Stage
- 3. The New Art of the Theatre' in New York and Toronto 71
- 4. Eugene O'Neill: The American Georg Kaiser 82
- 5. Herman Voaden's 'Symphonic Expressionism' 117
-
Part Three: Expressionism and the Modern Novel
- 6. The Dark Night of the Soul: Djuna Barnes's Nightwood 141
- 7. The Soul in Writhing Anguish: Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano 163
- 8. Sheila Watson and the 'Double Hook' of Expressive Abstraction 185
- 9. The real soul-sickness': Self-Creation and the Expressionist Method in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man 210
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Part Four: The Expressionist Legacy
- 10 From Modernism to Postmodernism: Conclusions, Speculations, and Questions 229
- Notes 247
- Select Bibliography 297
- Index 309