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Staging depth

Joel Pfister

1995327 pagesabout 5–7 hours
1995
first published
  • 1995University of North Carolina Press · 327 pages · ENGISBN 9780807821862
  • 2000University of North Carolina Press · 352 pages · ENGISBN 9780807863855

Pfister examines the history of the middle-class family and of Freudian pop psychology in the 1910s and 1920s to reconstruct the cultural conditions for the imagining and popularizing of "depth", a trope that was central to O'Neill's dramatic vision.

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ComplexityLayered

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ThemesFamily

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