Regression and Apocalypse : Studies in North American Literary Expressionism.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: 'Entartete Kunst' - Modernism in Germany -- 1 Expressionism: History, Definition, and Theory -- 2 German Expressionism in the Arts -- Part Two: Expressionism on the North American Stage -- 3 'The New Art of the Theatre' in New York and Toronto -- 4 Eugene O'Neill: The American Georg Kaiser -- 5 Herman Voaden's 'Symphonic Expressionism' -- Part Three: Expressionism and the Modern Novel -- 6 The Dark Night of the Soul: Djuna Barnes's Nightwood -- 7 The Soul in Writhing Anguish: Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano -- 8 Sheila Watson and the 'Double Hook' of Expressive Abstraction -- 9 'The real soul-sickness': Self-Creation and the Expressionist Method in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- Part Four: The Expressionist Legacy -- 10 From Modernism to Postmodernism: Conclusions, Speculations, and Questions -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Working from a set of topoi and structural paradigms, Grace discusses selected examples of expressionistic texts.

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