Get the Guests: Psychoanalysis, Modern American Drama, and the Audience.
1995; Duke University Press; Volume: 67; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2927962
ISSN1527-2117
Autores Tópico(s)Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research
ResumoThrough a detailed reading of five great modern American plays The Iceman Cometh, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, Long Day's Journey Into Night, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Walter A. Davis calls for a more penetrating look at drama and its psychological impact on the Establishing connections between literary criticism and psychoanalysis, he challenges ruling assumptions of both disciplines. Unconventional and original, his theory demonstrates how the theater, as a potential threat to social order, expresses the secrets and discontents of its audience.
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