Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Plates ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One: 'Entartete Kunst' – Modernism in Germany
7. 1. Expressionism: History, Definition, and Theory 11
8. 2. German Expressionism in the Arts 43
9. Part Two: Expressionism on the North American Stage
10. 3. The New Art of the Theatre' in New York and Toronto 71
11. 4. Eugene O'Neill: The American Georg Kaiser 82
12. 5. Herman Voaden's 'Symphonic Expressionism' 117
13. Part Three: Expressionism and the Modern Novel
14. 6. The Dark Night of the Soul: Djuna Barnes's Nightwood 141
15. 7. The Soul in Writhing Anguish: Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano 163
16. 8. Sheila Watson and the 'Double Hook' of Expressive Abstraction 185
17. 9. The real soul-sickness': Self-Creation and the Expressionist Method in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man 210
18. Part Four: The Expressionist Legacy
19. 10 From Modernism to Postmodernism: Conclusions, Speculations, and Questions 229
20. Notes 247
21. Select Bibliography 297
22. Index 309