The Cambridge Companion To Tennessee Williams
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The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams
Author | : Matthew C. Roudané |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1997-12-11 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781107493827 |
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This is a collection of thirteen original essays from a team of leading scholars in the field. In this wide-ranging volume, the contributors cover a healthy sampling of Williams's works, from the early apprenticeship years in the 1930s through to his last play before his death in 1983, Something Cloudy, Something Clear. In addition to essays on such major plays as The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, among others, the contributors also consider selected minor plays, short stories, poems, and biographical concerns. The Companion also features a chapter on selected key productions as well as a bibliographic essay surveying the major critical statements on Williams.
Men in the Middle
Author | : James Gilbert |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2005-07 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780226293240 |
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While the 1950s have been popularly portrayed-on television and in the movies and literature-as a conformist and conservative age, the decade is better understood as a revolutionary time for politics, economy, mass media, and family life. Magazines, films, newspapers, and television of the day scrutinized every aspect of this changing society, paying special attention to the lifestyles of the middle-class men and their families who were moving to the suburbs newly springing up outside American cities. Much of this attention focused on issues of masculinity, both to enforce accepted ideas and to understand serious departures from the norm. Neither a period of "male crisis" nor yet a time of free experimentation, the decade was marked by contradiction and a wide spectrum of role models. This was, in short, the age of Tennessee Williams as well as John Wayne. In Men in the Middle, James Gilbert uncovers a fascinating and extensive body of literature that confronts the problems and possibilities of expressing masculinity in the 1950s. Drawing on the biographies of men who explored manhood either in their writings or in their public personas, Gilbert examines the stories of several of the most important figures of the day-revivalist Billy Graham, playwright Tennessee Williams, sociologist David Riesman, sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, Playboy literary editor Auguste Comte Spectorsky, and TV-sitcom dad Ozzie Nelson-and allows us to see beyond the inherited stereotypes of the time. Each of these stories, in Gilbert's hands, adds crucial dimensions to our understanding of masculinity the 1950s. No longer will this era be seen solely in terms of the conformist man in the gray flannel suit or the Marlboro Man.
Tennessee Williams s A Streetcar Named Desire
Author | : Harold Bloom,Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom |
Publsiher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : New Orleans (La.) |
ISBN | : 9781438126289 |
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Presents a collection of ten critical essays on Williams's play "A Streetcar Named Desire" arranged in chronological order of publication.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South
Author | : Sharon Monteith |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2013-08-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107036789 |
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Featuring essays written by an international team of experts, this Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South.
The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller
Author | : Christopher Bigsby,Christopher William Edgar Bigsby |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2010-04-22 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521768740 |
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Revised and updated to include Miller's late work and the key productions and criticism since the playwright's death in 2005.
The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe
Author | : Kevin J. Hayes |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2002-04-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0521797276 |
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This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Edgar Allan Poe's work and life. Contributions provide a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversial American writers. The essays, specially tailored to the needs of undergraduates, examine all of Poe's major writings, his poetry, short stories and criticism, and place his work in a variety of literary, cultural and political contexts. They situate his imaginative writings in relation to different modes of writing: humor, Gothicism, anti-slavery tracts, science fiction, the detective story, and sentimental fiction. Three chapters examine specific works: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Raven', and 'Ulalume'. The volume features a detailed chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading, and will be of interest to students and scholars alike.
The Cambridge Companion to Keats
Author | : Susan J. Wolfson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2001-05-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 052165839X |
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In The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats's work in several fascinating contexts: literary history and key predecessors; Keats's life in London's intellectual, aesthetic and literary culture and the relation of his poetry to the visual arts. These specially commissioned essays are sophisticated but accessible, challenging but lucid, and are complemented by an introduction to Keats's life, a chronology, a list of contemporary people and periodicals, a source reference for famous phrases and ideas articulated in Keats's letters, a glossary of literary terms and a guide to further reading.
The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw
Author | : Christopher Innes |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1998-09-24 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521566339 |
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This volume covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focusing both on the political and theatrical context, while the illustrations showcase productions from the Shaw Festival in Canada.