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The Cultural Production of the Psychological Self: Eugene O'Neill
AMST279 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 1910's, the history of pop psychology in the 1910's and 1920's, left-wing critiques of O'Neill in the 1920's and 1930's, feminist plays of the 1910's and 1920's, and cultural studies theoretical approaches to the study of bourgeois subjec tivity

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

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Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: NONE    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE

Last Updated on MAR-24-2000

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