期刊名称:Teaching American Literature : A Journal of Theory and Practice
电子版ISSN:2150-3974
出版年度:2013
卷号:6
期号:2
页码:83-101
出版社:Teaching American Literature
摘要:This study sets out to examine the relationship between Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones and Dante Alighieri's Inferno from three different viewpoints including socio-political, theological and psychological. The main focus of this study is to scrutinize the nature of O'Neill's combination and inclusion of the themes and ideologies in Dante's work into his own play and give them a modernist aura