Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams
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.
The Search for Jacqueline
When Annie OaHanlon, Irish-born supermodel, returns home for her fatheras funeral, sheas given an envelope that contains a letter and an old photograph of her father with a young woman named Jacqueline. The letter explains that her father had an affair with Jacqueline and got her pregnant. When the girl died giving birth to Annie, John and his wife adopted the baby. When Annie contacts her grandparents to learn more about her mother, they accuse her father of killing their daughter. Then she receives a call from Dermot Moore, a journalist, who tells her that he believes her grandparents are lying and her mother is still alive. She joins him in his search for the truth regarding Jacquelineas disappearance. Determined to solve the mystery, their hunt for answers almost costs Dermot his life. Annie is now alone as she tries to solve the mystery of what happened to Jacqueline, her mother!
Works of Art
None
Dramatizing Dementia
Rather than attempting to psychoanalyze the characters, the author uses the social situations within the dramas themselves to define the terms of her argument. Her analysis of the plays is organized according to the recurring themes of confinement, women, language, and artists, and draws upon a variety of psychological, literary, and biographical sources to examine Williams's preoccupation with the mentally ill and society's treatment of them. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Law and Sexuality in Tennessee Williams’s America
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 transgres...
A Streetcar Named Desire
Discusses the writing of A streetcar named Desire by Tennessee Williams. Includes critical essays on the work and a brief biography of the author.
Flying for the Air Service
Draws on letters and other sources to trace the experience of Bostonians George and Gerard Hughes as they progressed from apprentice pilots to flight instructors and combat pilots in the fledgling American Air Service during World War I. George was sent to France where he flew observation planes over the front lines. Gerard spent the war in Texas as an instructor, but joined his brother in France as the war ended. About a dozen photographs are included, and short sketches of people mentioned. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams
Is Tennessee Williams a social writer at heart? Hooper questions this view, presenting a new interpretation of the dramatist.
