Tennessee Williams And His Contemporaries
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Tennessee Williams And His Contemporaries
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Author : Robert Bray
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-10-02
Tennessee Williams And His Contemporaries written by Robert Bray and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Tennessee Williams and His Contemporaries compiles eight transcribed panels that were featured at The Tennessee Williams Scholars’ Conference, an annual event held each March in conjunction with the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. This study, the first of its kind, explores issues involving Williams’s drama, fiction, poetry, and films in a discursive format designed to probe and debate the legacy of America’s famous playwright. Virtually all aspects of Williams’s long career are covered in this volume, including the early and late plays, his unpublished work, his use of the grotesque, and his relationships with three of his contemporaries: Carson McCullers, Lillian Hellman, and William Inge. In addition, Williams scholars who teach his work discuss the most effective strategies for bringing his material into the classroom. The unique design of this volume offers a broad understanding of his material for students previously unacquainted with Tennessee Williams as well as fresh perspectives from recognized experts in the field that will satisfy those who are already familiar with his life and work.
Tennessee Williams And The Theatre Of Excess
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Author : Annette J. Saddik
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-26
Tennessee Williams And The Theatre Of Excess written by Annette J. Saddik and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-26 with Drama categories.
This book explores Williams' late plays in terms of a 'theatre of excess', which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter.
Epic Influences In The Works Of Tennessee Williams
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Author : Autumn Berger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Epic Influences In The Works Of Tennessee Williams written by Autumn Berger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with categories.
Essays On The Glass Menagerie
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Author : Tania Chakravertty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-10
Essays On The Glass Menagerie written by Tania Chakravertty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10 with Drama categories.
"This volume traces the growth of Tennessee Williams from being a fragile child to becoming one of America's greatest playwrights, also highlighting the playwright's deep indebtedness to the Southern literary conventions. The book analyses Williams's wonderful play with the sense of time and shows how in The Glass Menagerie as in all memory plays, the protagonist ruminates over the past, re-evaluates himself in that context and has a deeper understanding of the present, eventually using memory to recover from past trauma. One of the chapters analyses the use of the new form in Menagerie that Williams and his contemporaries had begun experimenting with, what Williams referred to as 'plastic theatre'. Twentieth century American poetic drama, turned out to be contemporary, seeking the universal emotional and psychic truths and simultaneously portraying American life and culture with authenticity. The book also involves an in-depth study of the characters in Menagerie. Tom Wingfield has been critiqued in relationship to the absent father, the formidable mother and the soulmate sister; and the author has focused on, amongst many things, the gender issue. She has provided an analysis and critique of the reproduction of sex and gender and has brought the reader's attention to Tom Wingfield's and the playwright's own struggle to strike a balance between the masculine and the feminine"--
Faulkner And His Contemporaries
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Author : Joseph R. Urgo
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2009-09-18
Faulkner And His Contemporaries written by Joseph R. Urgo and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Although he spent the bulk of his life in Oxford, Mississippi-far removed from the intellectual centers of modernism and the writers who created it—William Faulkner (1897–1962) proved to be one of the American novelists who most comprehensively grasped modernism. In his fiction he tested its tenets in the most startling and insightful ways. What, then, did such contemporaries as Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, and Walker Evans think of his work? How did his times affect and accept what he wrote? Faulkner and His Contemporaries explores the relationship between the Nobel laureate, ensconced in his “postage stamp of native soil,” and the world of letters within which he created his masterpieces. In this anthology, essays focus on such topics as how Faulkner's literary antecedents (in particular, Willa Cather and Joseph Conrad) influenced his writing, his literary/aesthetic feud with rival Ernest Hemingway, and the common themes he shares with fellow southerners Welty and Evans. Several essays examine the environment in which Faulkner worked. Deborah Clarke concentrates on the rise of the automobile industry. W. Kenneth Holditch shows how the city of New Orleans acted as a major force in Faulkner's fiction, and Grace Elizabeth Hale examines how the civil rights era of Faulkner's later career compelled him to deal with his ideas about race and rebellion in new ways.
The Emergence Of A Characteristic Contemporary Form In The American Drama Of Tennessee Williams
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Author : Esther Merle Jackson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
The Emergence Of A Characteristic Contemporary Form In The American Drama Of Tennessee Williams written by Esther Merle Jackson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with categories.
Tennessee Williams
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Author : Harold Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Chelsea House
Release Date : 2007
Tennessee Williams written by Harold Bloom and has been published by Chelsea House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Southern States categories.
A collection of critical essays on Tennessee Williams' work.
A Student Handbook To The Plays Of Tennessee Williams
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Author : Stephen Bottoms
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-09-25
A Student Handbook To The Plays Of Tennessee Williams written by Stephen Bottoms and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-25 with Drama categories.
A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams provides the essential guide to Williams' most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on four of Williams' plays: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth. A consistent framework of analysis ensures that whether readers are wanting a summary of the play, a commentary on the themes or characters, or a discussion of the work in performance, they can readily find what they need to develop their understanding and aid their appreciation of Williams' artistry. A chronology of the writer's life and work helps to situate all his works in context and the introduction reinforces this by providing a clear overview of Williams' writing, its recurrent themes and concerns and how these are intertwined with his life and times. For each play the author provides a summary of the plot, followed by commentary on: * The context * Themes * Characters * Structure and language * The play in production (both on stage and screen adaptations) Questions for study, and notes on words and phrases in the text are also supplied to aid the reader. The wealth of authoritative and clear commentary on each play, together with further questions that encourage comparison across Williams' work and related plays by other leading writers, ensures that this is the clearest and fullest guide to Williams' greatest plays.
Understanding Tennessee Williams
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Author : Alice Griffin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Understanding Tennessee Williams written by Alice Griffin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Alice Griffin offers an in-depth evaluation of the nine plays that established Tennessee Williams as America's greatest lyric dramatist. Describing him as the first playwright writing in English to combine full-blooded characters, theatricalism, and poetic dialogue, Griffin considers Williams both as a literary figure and as a stage innovator. Griffin analyzes the language, characters, dramatic effects, and staging of these classic plays, and she calls attention to Williams's unique gift for creating dialogue as lyrical poetry yet as authentic as everyday conversation. She reveals the importance of symbolism in his work, uncovers his often overlooked humor, and explains his insistence on "plastic" presentations. Griffin also chronicles the resistance that Williams met when he tried to bring his revolutionary staging ideas to the commercial theater. Griffin viewed the plays as originally staged and discussed them with the playwright, the directors, and the actors. From her association with these initial productions, Griffin shares her knowledge of Williams's frustration with the presentation of his work. She remedies what she considers to be misguided interpretations of those early productions by measuring the original stage productions against Williams's stated aims.
Tennessee Williams In Sweden And France 1945 1965
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Author : Dirk Gindt
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-01-24
Tennessee Williams In Sweden And France 1945 1965 written by Dirk Gindt and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-24 with Performing Arts categories.
The immediate post-war period marks a pivotal moment in the internationalization of American theatre when Tennessee Williams' plays became some of Broadway's most critically acclaimed and financially lucrative exports. Dirk Gindt offers a detailed study of the production and reception of Williams' work on Swedish and French stages at the height of his popularity between 1945 and 1965. Analysing the national openings of seminal plays, including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer, Gindt provides rich and nuanced insights into Williams' transnational impact. In the process, he charts a network of fascinating and influential directors, actors, designers, producers and critics, all of whom left distinctive marks on mid-twentieth-century European theatre and culture. Gindt further demonstrates how Williams' work foregrounded cultural apprehensions, racial fantasies and sexual anxieties, which resulted in heated debates in the critical and popular media.