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Lillian Hellman A Bibliography 1926 1978
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Download or read book Lillian Hellman written by William Wright and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This portrait traces the controversial life of the successful playwright, including her relationship with Dashiell Hammett and details her active role in ideological battles and her celebrated feuds with everyone from Tallulah Bankhead to Mary McCarthy.
Book Synopsis Lillian Hellman by : Deborah Martinson
Download or read book Lillian Hellman written by Deborah Martinson and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few literary celebrities have lived with more abandon and under a brighter spotlight than Lillian Hellman. Even fewer have been doubted as absolutely as Hellman, famously denounced by rival Mary McCarthy. Attacked by critics and idealized by admirers, Hellman's determination to control and manipulate her image helped make her a figure of unknowable half–truths and rumors. Until now. Lillian Hellman: A Life with Foxes and Scoundrels is the first biography of the iconoclastic playwright written with the full cooperation of her family, friends, and inner circle. Deborah Martinson moves beyond the myths around Hellman and finds the sassy, outrageous woman committed to writing, to politics, and to having her say. Martinson's research—through interviews, archives, recently declassified CIA files, and her unprecedented access to Hellman's confidants—paints the most complete, and surprisingly admiring, portrait of this remarkable writer that we've ever had. Distinctly American—a New Orleans Jew with one foot in Manhattan and one in Hollywood, a writer whose experience spanned the Great Depression, the Cold War, and the Nixon years—Hellman lives again in this riveting biography, facing the world with wit, truth, lies, and chutzpah.
Book Synopsis Understanding Lillian Hellman by : Alice Griffin
Download or read book Understanding Lillian Hellman written by Alice Griffin and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People remain fascinated by her love affairs, her thirty-year relationship with the detective fiction writer Dashiell Hammett, and her visits to Spain during its civil war and to Russia during World War II."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Lillian Hellman by : Barbara L. Horn
Download or read book Lillian Hellman written by Barbara L. Horn and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1998-08-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acclaimed as one of America's most distinguished female playwrights, Lillian Hellman made an entrance into a largely male-dominated field in 1934 with The Children's Hour, a drama that rocked the literary establishment with its frank treatment of lesbianism while calling attention to her writing talents. Written between 1934 and 1963, Hellman's dramatic canon includes eight original plays and four adaptations. Two of these, Watch on the Rhine (1941) and Toys in the Attic (1960), received Drama Critics' Circle Awards. In addition to her dramatic activities, she wrote three memoirs and a novella, contributed articles to national magazines, edited Chekov's letters and Dashiell Hammett's mysteries, and penned several screenplays. She is probably best known for The Little Foxes (1939), her drama about a family of predatory entrepreneurs who seek to build an industrial fortune on the ruins of the old South. Both a quick reference guide and an exhaustive resource, this volume provides broad and thorough coverage of Hellman's dramatic career. It begins with a critical overview of her life, along with a chronology of her accomplishments. The bulk of the book, which treats her eight original plays and four adaptations, all written for the Broadway stage, provides detailed plot summaries, stage histories, and critical overviews. The next section offers an annotated bibliography of primary sources. This is followed by an annotated secondary bibliography, which is divided into sections on reviews, books, and articles. Entries in the bibliographies are first arranged chronologically and then alphabetically, so that the reader can gain a fuller sense of the development of Hellman's career and the response to her works over time. Detailed indexes conclude the volume and offer full alphabetical access to its contents.
Book Synopsis The Undergraduate's Companion to American Writers and Their Web Sites by : Larry G. Hinman
Download or read book The Undergraduate's Companion to American Writers and Their Web Sites written by Larry G. Hinman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-12-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outstanding research guide for undergraduate students of American literature, this best-selling book is essential when it comes to researching American authors. Bracken and Hinman identify and describe the best and most current sources, both in print and online, for nearly 300 American writers whose works are included in the most frequently used literary anthologies. Students will know exactly what information is available and where to find it.
Book Synopsis Critical Essays on Lillian Hellman by : Mark W. Estrin
Download or read book Critical Essays on Lillian Hellman written by Mark W. Estrin and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction / Mark W. Estrin -- The dramaturgy of blackmail in the Ibsenite Hellman / Jacob H. Adler -- Miss Hellman's two sisters / Jacob H. Adler -- The autumn garden : mechanics and dialectics / Marvin Felheim -- The dramatic adaptations of Lillian Hellman / Doris Fleischer and Leonard Fleischer -- The lark, translation vs. adaptation : a case history / Henry W. Knepler -- "Good and evil" in Lillian Hellman's The children's hour / Philip M. Armato -- Bohemia bumps into Calvin : the deception of passivity in Lillian Hellman's drama / Mary Lynn Broe -- Lillian Hellman's American political theater : the thirties and beyond / Timothy J. Wiles -- Establishing the woman and constructing a narrative in Lillian Hellman's memoirs / Pamela S. Bromberg.
Book Synopsis The Fourth Ghost by : Robert H. Brinkmeyer
Download or read book The Fourth Ghost written by Robert H. Brinkmeyer and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1949 classic Killers of the Dream, Lillian Smith described three racial "ghosts" haunting the mind of the white South: the black woman with whom the white man often had sexual relations, the rejected child from a mixed-race coupling, and the black mammy whom the white southern child first loves but then must reject. In this groundbreaking work, Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., extends Smith's work by adding a fourth "ghost" lurking in the psyche of the white South -- the specter of European Fascism. He explores how southern writers of the 1930s and 1940s responded to Fascism, and most tellingly to the suggestion that the racial politics of Nazi Germany had a special, problematic relevance to the South and its segregated social system. As Brinkmeyer shows, nearly all white southern writers in these decades felt impelled to deal with this specter and with the implications for southern identity of the issues raised by Nazism and Fascism. Their responses varied widely, ranging from repression and denial to the repulsion of self-recognition. With penetrating insight, Brinkmeyer examines the work of writers who contemplated the connection between the authoritarianism and racial politics of Nazi Germany and southern culture. He shows how white southern writers -- both those writing cultural criticism and those writing imaginative literature -- turned to Fascist Europe for images, analogies, and metaphors for representing and understanding the conflict between traditional and modern cultures that they were witnessing in Dixie. Brinkmeyer considers the works of a wide range of authors of varying political stripes: the Nashville Agrarians, W. J. Cash, Lillian Smith, William Alexander Percy, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, Carson McCullers, Robert Penn Warren, and Lillian Hellman. He argues persuasively that by engaging in their works the vital contemporary debates about totalitarianism and democracy, these writers reconfigured their understanding not only of the South but also of themselves as southerners, and of the nature and significance of their art. The magnum opus of a distinguished scholar, The Fourth Ghost offers a stunning reassessment of the cultural and political orientation of southern literature by examining a major and heretofore unexplored influence on its development.
Author :Margaret Booker Publisher :Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers ISBN 13 : Total Pages :180 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Lillian Hellman and August Wilson by : Margaret Booker
Download or read book Lillian Hellman and August Wilson written by Margaret Booker and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically discusses the works of two seemingly different and unconnected playwrights, Lillian Hellman and August Wilson. By analyzing the black presence in Hellman and its counterpart white presence in Wilson, it exposes interracial boundaries and illuminates the architecture of the new American citizen through the examination of stereotypes, the revelation of sources of ongoing racial tension, and suggested solutions. Their dramas rewrite history to reflect their political activism and espouse a shared value system that demands responsible action, equitable reward, and recognition of women and African Americans as equally valuable citizens of American society.
Book Synopsis World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre by : Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer)
Download or read book World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre written by Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.
Book Synopsis Moral Questions in the Life and Work of Lillian Hellman by : Pia Seija Taavila-Walters
Download or read book Moral Questions in the Life and Work of Lillian Hellman written by Pia Seija Taavila-Walters and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Notable American Women by : Susan Ware
Download or read book Notable American Women written by Susan Ware and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest volume brings the project up to date, with entries on almost 500 women whose death dates fall between 1976 and 1999. You will find here stars of the golden ages of radio, film, dance, and television; scientists and scholars; civil rights activists and religious leaders; Native American craftspeople and world-renowned artists. For each subject, the volume offers a biographical essay by a distinguished authority that integrates the woman's personal life with her professional achievements set in the context of larger historical developments.
Book Synopsis Guide to American Literature by : Valmai Kirkham Fenster
Download or read book Guide to American Literature written by Valmai Kirkham Fenster and published by Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1983 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reference Sources, 1982 by : Terry Silver
Download or read book Reference Sources, 1982 written by Terry Silver and published by . This book was released on 1984-12 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Walford's guide to reference material by : Albert John Walford
Download or read book Walford's guide to reference material written by Albert John Walford and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Playwrights, 1880-1945 by : William W. Demastes
Download or read book American Playwrights, 1880-1945 written by William W. Demastes and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1995 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the years 1880 to 1945, American theatre grew up, moving from entertainment-driven motives and melodramatic formulas to serious confrontations with issues of its time and to an experimentation with forms that would allow those confrontations to be frank and earnest. Many of the playwrights of this time wrote works of lasting significance, while others have impacted the work of contemporary dramatists. This reference is a guide to American theatre during this formative period. The volume includes alphabetically arranged entries for 40 American playwrights active between 1880 and 1945. Included are the most frequently canonized figures, as well as previously neglected women and minority playwrights whose work is a vital part of American theatre history. Each entry includes a biographical overview, a summary of the critical reception of major productions and significant revivals, a critical assessment of the playwright's career, and a listing of archival, primary, and secondary bibliographic material.
Book Synopsis Reference Guide to American Literature by : Thomas Riggs
Download or read book Reference Guide to American Literature written by Thomas Riggs and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of American writers, thinkers, and cultural figures, written by subject experts.
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Download or read book Subject Guide to Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
