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Academic Year 2001/2002
The Cultural Production of the Psychological Self: Eugene O'Neill
AMST 279 FA
We will read Eugene O'Neill's plays (1913-43) in the historical context of the ideological production of the bourgeois psychological subject. Our work on O'Neill will draw on the history of middle-class family life, the
history of anarchism and
socialism in the 1910s, the history of pop psychology in the 1910s and 1920s, left-wing critiques of O'Neill in the 1920s and 1930s, feminist plays of the 1910s and 1920s, and cultural studies' theoretical approaches to
the study of bourgeois subjectivity
MAJOR READINGS
Susan Glaspell and Jig Cook, SUPPRESSED DESIRES Susan Glaspell, TRIFLES, WOMAN'S HONOR, THE VERGE Max Eastman and Floyd Dell, selections from THE MASSES, THE LIBERATOR, and THE NEW MASSES Emma Goldman, selections
from MOTHER EARTH Eugene O'Neill,
THE WEB, THE HAIRY APE, THE PERSONAL EQUATION, WELDED, DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS, STRANGE INTERLUDE, MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA, AH, WILDERNESS!, THE ICEMAN COMETH, LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT Louis Bisch, BE GLAD YOU'RE
NEUROTIC William J. Fielding, THE
CAVEMAN WITHIN US
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
One 5-7 page paper and one long research paper. Each student will take a turn at leading class discussion.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
This course counts toward the English Deapartment's theory requirement.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
NONE
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-19-2002
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