| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 382 pages). |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-365) and index. |
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"Works by Tennessee Williams": pages 360-362. |
| Contents |
On Tennessee Williams / Brenda Murphy -- Biography of Tennessee Williams / Robert J. Forman -- The Paris review perspective / Sasha Weiss for The Paris review -- The critical reception of the works of Tennessee Williams / Jennifer Banach -- Tennessee Williams on America / Susan C.W. Abbotson -- "Getting the colored lights going": expressionism in A streetcar named Desire / Henry I. Schvey -- Mendacity on the stage: "lying and liars" in Cat on a hot tin roof / Kenneth Elliott -- A gallery of witches / Nancy M. Tischler -- Culture, power, and the (en)gendering of community: Tennessee Williams and politics / Thomas P. Adler -- Deranged artists: creativity and madness / Jacqueline O'Connor -- Flying the Jolly Roger: images of escape and selfhood in The glass menagerie / Lori Leathers Single -- "Fifty percent illusion": The mask of the southern belle in Tennessee Williams's A streetcar named Desire, The glass menagerie, and "Portrait of a Madonna" / George Hovis -- Williams in ebony: black and multi-racial productions of A streetcar named Desire / Philip C. Kolin -- "Something cloudy, something clear": homophobic discourse in Tennessee Williams / John M. Clum -- "sneakin' and spyin'" from Broadway to the Beltway: cold war masculinity, Brick, and homosexual existentialism / John S. Bak -- "Collecting evidence": the natural world in Tennessee Williams' The night of the iguana / Rod Phillips -- Red devil battery sign: an approach to a mytho-political theatre / James Schlatter -- Tennessee Williams' Out cry in The two-character play / Nicholas O. Pagan -- Peeping Tom: voyeurism, taboo, and truth in the world of Williams's short fiction / George W. Crandell -- "The transmutation of experience": the aesthetics and themes of Williams's nonfiction / D. Dean Shackelford. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
This book provides readers with in-depth, critical discussions of the life and works of Tennessee Williams. A chronology of Williamss life, a complete list of Williamss works and their original dates of publication, a general bibliography, a detailed paragraph on the volumes editor, notes on the individual chapter authors, and a subject index are also provided. |
| Subject |
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. (OCoLC)fst00040786
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DRAMA -- American.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Murphy, Brenda, 1950- Editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tennessee Williams. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, ©2011 9781587656873 (DLC) 2010029142 (OCoLC)649079446 |
| ISBN |
9781587656880 (electronic bk.) |
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1587656884 (electronic bk.) |
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