Roudane

The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams

Herausgeber: Roudane, Matthew Charles

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This wide-ranging volume covers Williams's works, from the early apprenticeship years through to his last play before his death in 1983. In addition to essays on the plays, the contributors also consider selected short stories, poems, and biographical concerns and a bibliographic chapter surveys the major critical statements on Williams.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9780521498838
• ISBN-10: 052149883X
• Artikelnr.: 21029150

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations and acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Chronology
Introduction Matthew C. Roudané
1. Early Williams: the making of a playwright Allean Hale
2. Entering The Glass Menagerie C. W. E. Bigsby
3. A streetcar running fifty years Felicia Hardison Londré
4. Camino Real: Williams's allegory about the fifties Jan Balakian
5. Writing in 'A Place of Stone': Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Albert J. Devlin
6. Before the fall - and after: Summer and Smoke and The Night of the Iguana Thomas P. Adler
7. The sacrificial stud and the fugitive female in Suddenly Last Summer, Orpheus Descending, and Sweet Bird of Youth John M. Clum
8. Romantic textures in Tennessee Williams's plays and short stories Nancy M. Tischler
9. Seeking direction Brenda Murphy
10. Hollywood in crisis: Tennessee Williams and the evolution of the adult film R. Barton Palmer
11. Tennessee Williams: the last two decades Ruby Cohn
12. Words on Williams: a bibliographical essay Jacqueline O'Connor
13. The Strangest Kind of Romance: Tennessee Williams and his Broadway critics Jacqueline O'Connor
Index.