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AMST279
The Cultural Production of the Psychological Self: Eugene O'Neill
AMST279 FA
Crosslistings: ENGL261
Not Currently Offered
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: Seminar
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA ENGL
Prerequisites:
None
Last Updated on MAR-22-1999
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