| Description |
133 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Understanding contemporary American literature |
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Understanding contemporary American literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-129) and index. |
| Contents |
Understanding Sam Shepard -- Experimentations with sound, language, and myth: the early plays, 1964-1976 -- Divining the cure: Curse of the starving class -- Hidden trespasses: Buried Child -- The authentic family: True West -- Chaos and connection: the later works, 1983- 2009. |
| Summary |
"Written with great lucidity and wearing its considerable erudition lightly, Understanding Sam Shepard is the perfect introduction to Shepard for both beginning and advanced students of American Drama. Because of its subtlety and depth of textual analysis, the book is equally valuable for the scholar. James A. Crank unearths Shepard's buried children and their cursed families in all their complexity and mystery, making a compelling case for the unity and profundity of Shepard's mythic vision of America."--Henry I. Schvey, professor of drama and comparative literature, Washington University in St. Louis --Book Jacket. |
| Subject |
Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017 (DE-588)118812025
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Shepard, Sam, 1943- (OCoLC)fst00048074
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| ISBN |
9781611171068 (cloth) |
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1611171067 (cloth) |
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