Coming Home Again: American Family Drama and the Figure of the Prodigal

by Geoffrey S. Proehl

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Coming Home Again begins with an image found again and again in American drama: the image of a man with a bottle. This study explores this convention and its dramatic functions, conventions of male prodigality in American domestic drama, and the role of the "grace" figure.
  • ISBN10 0838635474
  • ISBN13 9780838635476
  • Publish Date 1 January 1997
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 16 March 2012
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Associated University Presses
  • Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 224
  • Language English