Elmer Rice's Adding Machine as an Expressionistic Alienation
Abstract
Expressionism refers to the Twentieth century artistic German movement that
influenced drama, poetry, and fiction along with other types of art such as painting
and music. It emerged after the First World War (1914-19-18). Expressionism
attempts to express emotions, moods, and other aspects of inner experience by
externalizing them through the use of nonrealistic devices:
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