| Description |
x, 194 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
A Spectrum book ; S-TC-131 |
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Twentieth century views |
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Twentieth century views.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Stephen S. Stanton -- Plays -- Tennessee Williams' approach to tragedy / Robert Bechtold Heilman -- The glass menagerie revisited: catastrophe without violence / Roger B. Stein -- The garrulous grotesques of Tennessee Williams / Ruby Cohn -- Tennessee Williams' achievement in the sixties / Gerald Weales -- The new note in Tennessee Williams / Harold Clurman -- The dialogue of incompletion: language in Tennessee Williams' later plays / Thomas P. Adler -- Themes -- The anti-hero in the plays of Tennessee Williams / Esther Merle Jackson -- Tennessee Williams and the predicament of women / Louise Blackwell -- Tennessee Williams' fugitive kind / Donald P. Costello -- Tennessee Williams: a desperate morality / Arthur Ganz -- The search for God in the plays of Tennessee Williams / Thomas P. Adler -- Tennessee Williams' Lives of the saints: a playwright's obliquity / Gilbert Debusscher -- The distorted mirror: Tennessee Williams' self-portraits / Nancy M. Tischler -- Tennessee Williams: "What's left?" / Catharine Hughes -- Work in progress -- The red devil battery sign: a first impression / Sy M. Kahn -- The countess: center of This is (an entertainment) / Judith Hersh Clark |
| Summary |
A collection of critical essays analyzing his work, sensitivity to dialogue, his comic talent and theatrical flair |
| Analysis |
American drama Psychological aspects |
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Southern States In literature |
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Williams, Tennessee 1911-1983 Criticism and interpretation |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p. 189-194 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 189-194 |
| Performer |
ISBN 0-13-903617-2 Pbk : \2.75 |
| Subject |
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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American drama -- Psychological aspects.
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| SUBJECT |
Southern States -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111638
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| Author |
Stanton, Stephen Sadler, 1915-
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| LC no. |
77024463 |
| ISBN |
0139036172 |
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0139036253 |
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