Sexual Politics In The Work Of Tennessee Williams

Download Sexual Politics In The Work Of Tennessee Williams full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Sexual Politics In The Work Of Tennessee Williams ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams

Author : Michael S. D. Hooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107379121
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams by : Michael S. D. Hooper

Download or read book Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams written by Michael S. D. Hooper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael S. D. Hooper reverses the recent trend of regarding Tennessee Williams as fundamentally a social writer following the discovery, publication and/or performance of plays from both ends of his career - the 'proletarian' apprentice years of Candles to the Sun and Not About Nightingales and the once overlooked final period of, amongst many other plays, The Red Devil Battery Sign. Hooper contends that recent criticism has exaggerated the political engagement and egalitarian credentials of a writer whose characters and situations revert to a reactionary politics of the individual dominated by the negotiation of sexual power. Directly, or more often indirectly, Williams' writing expresses social disaffection before glamorising the outcast and shelving thoughts of political change. Through detailed analysis of canonical texts the book sheds new light on Williams' work, as well as on the cultural and social life of mid-twentieth-century America.

The Role of Sexuality in the Major Plays of Tennessee Williams

Author : Senata Karolina Bauer-Briski
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783906767970
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Role of Sexuality in the Major Plays of Tennessee Williams by : Senata Karolina Bauer-Briski

Download or read book The Role of Sexuality in the Major Plays of Tennessee Williams written by Senata Karolina Bauer-Briski and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tennessee Williams, one of the leading American playwrights of the 20th century, has often been called the 'national poet of the perverse'. Being a highly sexually active man all his life, he enjoyed writing sex into his plays and considered it beautiful. It is therefore perhaps surprising that the role sexuality plays in his dramatic work has never been researched in detail. This thesis is the first profound study of how sexuality - either overt or covert - affects and dominates Tennessee Williams' dramatic work. Analyzing eight major plays in detail, this study explores how the characters' lived or suppressed (deviating) sexual inclinations and preferences affect their psychological state, their behavior and their relationships with the other characters in the plays. It further demonstrates how sexuality motivates each play in the first place, dominates its plot and finally how the characters' ability to deal with their sexuality leads to either a conciliatory or a fatal, sometimes even a lethal ending. The book points out parallels and differences between the plays as well as Williams' development of sexuality in his drama.

Law and Sexuality in Tennessee Williams’s America

Author : Jacqueline O’Connor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611478944
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Law and Sexuality in Tennessee Williams’s America by : Jacqueline O’Connor

Download or read book Law and Sexuality in Tennessee Williams’s America written by Jacqueline O’Connor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and cultural studies readings of Tennessee Williams’s work have provided diverse perspectives on his complex representations of sexuality, whether of himself as an openly gay man, or of his characters, many of whom narrate or dramatize sexual attitudes or behavior that cross heteronormative boundaries of the mid-century period. Several of these studies have positioned Williams and his work amid the public tensions in American life over roughly four decades, from 1940–1980, as notions of equality and freedom of choice challenged prejudice and repression in law and in society. To date, however, neither Williams’s homosexuality nor his persistent representations of sexual transgressions have been examined as legal matters that challenged the rule of law. Directed by legal history and informed by multiple strands of Williams’s studies criticism, textual, and cultural, this book explores the interplay of select topics defined and debated in law’s texts with those same topics in Williams’s personal and imaginative texts. By tracing the obscure and the transparent representations of homosexuality, specifically, and diverse sexualities more generally, through selected stories and plays, the book charts the intersections between Williams’s literature and the laws that governed the period. His imaginative works, backlit by his personal documents and historical and legal records from the period, underscore his preoccupation with depictions of diverse sexualities throughout his career. His use of legal language and its varied effects on his texts demonstrate his work’s multiple and complex intersection with major twentieth-century concerns, including significant legal and cultural dialogues about identity formation, intimacy, privacy, and difference.

Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams

Author : Michael S. D. Hooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107015367
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams by : Michael S. D. Hooper

A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams

Author : Stephen Bottoms
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472528727
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams by : Stephen Bottoms

Download or read book A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams written by Stephen Bottoms and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

Author : Brenda Murphy
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408145332
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Theatre of Tennessee Williams by : Brenda Murphy

Download or read book The Theatre of Tennessee Williams written by Brenda Murphy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Perfect for students of English Literature, Theatre Studies and American Studies at college and university, The Theatre of Tennessee Williams provides a lucid and stimulating analysis of Willams' dramatic work by one of America's leading scholars. With the centennial of his birth celebrated amid a flurry of conferences devoted to his work in 2011, and his plays a central part of any literature and drama curriculum and uibiquitous in theatre repertoires, he remains a giant of twentieth century literature and drama. In Brenda Murphy's major study of his work she examines his life and career and provides an analysis of more than a score of his key plays, including in-depth studies of major works such as A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and others. She traces the artist figure who features in many of Williams' plays to broaden the discussion beyond the normal reference points. As with other volumes in Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series, this book features too essays by Bruce McConachie, John S. Bak, Felicia Hardison Londré and Annette Saddik, offering perspectives on different aspects of Williams' work that will assist students in their own critical thinking.

Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess

Author : Annette J. Saddik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316240681
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess by : Annette J. Saddik

Download or read book Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess written by Annette J. Saddik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plays of Tennessee Williams' post-1961 period have often been misunderstood and dismissed. In light of Williams' centennial in 2011, which was marked internationally by productions and world premieres of his late plays, Annette J. Saddik's new reading of these works illuminates them in the context of what she terms a 'theatre of excess', which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter. Saddik explains why they are now gaining increasing acclaim, and analyzes recent productions that successfully captured elements central to Williams' late aesthetic, particularly a delicate balance of laughter and horror with a self-consciously ironic acting style. Grounding the plays through the work of Bakhtin, Artaud, and Kristeva, as well as through the carnivalesque, the grotesque, and psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theory, Saddik demonstrates how Williams engaged the freedom of exaggeration and excess in celebration of what he called 'the strange, the crazed, the queer'.

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

Author : John Lahr
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393247120
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by : John Lahr

Download or read book Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh written by John Lahr and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: Biography Category National Book Award Finalist 2015 Winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award A Chicago Tribune 'Best Books of 2014' USA Today: 10 Books We Loved Reading Washington Post, 10 Best Books of 2014 The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker. John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. This astute, deeply researched biography sheds a light on Tennessee Williams's warring family, his guilt, his creative triumphs and failures, his sexuality and numerous affairs, his misreported death, even the shenanigans surrounding his estate. With vivid cameos of the formative influences in Williams's life—his fierce, belittling father Cornelius; his puritanical, domineering mother Edwina; his demented sister Rose, who was lobotomized at the age of thirty-three; his beloved grandfather, the Reverend Walter Dakin—Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is as much a biography of the man who created A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as it is a trenchant exploration of Williams’s plays and the tortured process of bringing them to stage and screen. The portrait of Williams himself is unforgettable: a virgin until he was twenty-six, he had serial homosexual affairs thereafter as well as long-time, bruising relationships with Pancho Gonzalez and Frank Merlo. With compassion and verve, Lahr explores how Williams's relationships informed his work and how the resulting success brought turmoil to his personal life. Lahr captures not just Williams’s tempestuous public persona but also his backstage life, where his agent Audrey Wood and the director Elia Kazan play major roles, and Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Bette Davis, Maureen Stapleton, Diana Barrymore, and Tallulah Bankhead have scintillating walk-on parts. This is a biography of the highest order: a book about the major American playwright of his time written by the major American drama critic of his time.

Blue Song

Author : Henry I. Schvey
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826274579
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Blue Song by : Henry I. Schvey

Download or read book Blue Song written by Henry I. Schvey and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011, the centennial of Tennessee Williams’s birth, events were held around the world honoring America’s greatest playwright. There were festivals, conferences, and exhibitions held in places closely associated with Williams’s life and career—New Orleans held major celebrations, as did New York, Key West, and Provincetown. But absolutely nothing was done to celebrate Williams’s life and extraordinary literary and theatrical career in the place that he lived in longest, and called home longer than any other—St. Louis, Missouri. The question of this paradox lies at the heart of this book, an attempt not so much to correct the record about Williams’s well-chronicled dislike of the city, but rather to reveal how the city was absolutely indispensable to his formation and development both as a person and artist. Unlike the prevailing scholarly narrative that suggests that Williams discovered himself artistically and sexually in the deep South and New Orleans, Blue Song reveals that Williams remained emotionally tethered to St. Louis for a host of reasons for the rest of his life.

Gentlemen Callers

Author : Michael Paller
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403967756
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (677 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Gentlemen Callers by : Michael Paller

Download or read book Gentlemen Callers written by Michael Paller and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-04-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

The Palgrave Handbook of the Southern Gothic

Author : Susan Castillo Street
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137477741
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of the Southern Gothic by : Susan Castillo Street

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of the Southern Gothic written by Susan Castillo Street and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines ‘Southern Gothic’ - a term that describes some of the finest works of the American Imagination. But what do ‘Southern’ and ‘Gothic’ mean, and how are they related? Traditionally seen as drawing on the tragedy of slavery and loss, ‘Southern Gothic’ is now a richer, more complex subject. Thirty-five distinguished scholars explore the Southern Gothic, under the categories of Poe and his Legacy; Space and Place; Race; Gender and Sexuality; and Monsters and Voodoo. The essays examine slavery and the laws that supported it, and stories of slaves who rebelled and those who escaped. Also present are the often-neglected issues of the Native American presence in the South, socioeconomic class, the distinctions among the several regions of the South, same-sex relationships, and norms of gendered behaviour. This handbook covers not only iconic figures of Southern literature but also other less well-known writers, and examines gothic imagery in film and in contemporary television programmes such as True Blood and True Detective.

The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South

Author : Fred Hobson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199767475
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South by : Fred Hobson

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South written by Fred Hobson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South brings together contemporary views of the literature of the region in a series of chapters employing critical tools not traditionally used in approaching Southern literature. It assumes ideas of the South--global, multicultural, plural: more Souths than South--that would not have been embraced two or three decades ago, and it similarly expands the idea of literature itself. Representative of the current range of activity in the field of Southern literary studies, it challenges earlier views of antebellum Southern literature, as well as, in its discussions of twentieth-century writing, questions the assumption that the Southern Renaissance of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s was the supreme epoch of Southern expression, that writing to which all that had come before had led and by which all that came afterward was judged. As well as canonical Southern writers, it examines Native American literature, Latina/o literature, Asian American as well as African American literatures, Caribbean studies, sexuality studies, the relationship of literature to film, and a number of other topics which are relatively new to the field.

Leading Men

Author : Christopher Castellani
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525559078
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Leading Men by : Christopher Castellani

Download or read book Leading Men written by Christopher Castellani and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expansive yet intimate story of desire, artistic ambition, and fidelity, set in the glamorous literary and film circles of 1950s Italy In July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja Blomgren, a mysterious young Swedish beauty and aspiring actress. Their encounter will go on to alter all of their lives. Ten years later, Frank revisits the tempestuous events of that fateful summer from his deathbed in Manhattan, where he waits anxiously for Tennessee to visit him one final time. Anja, now legendary film icon Anja Bloom, lives as a recluse in present-day America, until a young man connected to the events of 1953 lures her reluctantly back into the spotlight after he discovers she possesses the only copy of an unknown play--Tennessee's last. What keeps two people together and what breaks them apart? Can we save someone else if we can't save ourselves? With emotional clarity and grace, Leading Men seamlessly weaves fact and fiction to navigate the tensions between public figures and their private lives. In an ultimately heartbreaking story about the burdens of fame and the complex negotiations of life in the shadows of greatness, Castellani creates an unforgettable leading lady in Anja Bloom and reveals the hidden machinery of one of the great literary love stories of the twentieth-century.

Spring Storm

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811214223
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (142 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Spring Storm by : Tennessee Williams

Download or read book Spring Storm written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crucible of so many elements that would later shape and characterize Williams's work.--World Literature Today

Home on the Stage

Author : Nicholas Grene
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316062155
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Home on the Stage by : Nicholas Grene

Download or read book Home on the Stage written by Nicholas Grene and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a serious drama set in an ordinary middle-class home, Ibsen's A Doll's House established a new politics of the interior that was to have a lasting impact upon twentieth-century drama. In this innovative study, Nicholas Grene traces the changing forms of the home on the stage through nine of the greatest of modern plays and playwrights. From Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard through to Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, domestic spaces and personal crises have been employed to express wider social conditions and themes of class, gender and family. In the later twentieth century and beyond, the most radically experimental dramatists created their own challenging theatrical interiors, including Beckett in Endgame, Pinter in The Homecoming and Parks in Topdog/Underdog. Grene analyses the full significance of these versions of domestic spaces to offer fresh insights into the portrayal of the naturalistic environment in modern drama.

Ex-Centric Souths

Author : Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis
Publisher : Universitat de València
ISBN 13 : 8491345639
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (913 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Ex-Centric Souths by : Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis

Download or read book Ex-Centric Souths written by Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ex-Centric Souths: (Re)Imagining Southern Centers and Peripheries” adds a voice in ongoing attempts to chart new routes and to decenter the South in many ways in the hope of exploring Southern identity and multiple Souths. The articles collected in this volume bring to the forefront the translocal and transnational connections and relationships between the South and the circum-Caribbean region; they address the changing nature of Southernness, and especially its sense of place, and finally they investigate the potential of various texts to narrate and revisit regional concerns. Some contributions hold up to view topics ignored and marginalized, while other decontextualize themes and issues central to Southern studies by telling alternative histories.

Tennessee Williams in Sweden and France, 1945–1965

Author : Dirk Gindt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135002208X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Tennessee Williams in Sweden and France, 1945–1965 by : Dirk Gindt

Download or read book Tennessee Williams in Sweden and France, 1945–1965 written by Dirk Gindt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.