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Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams
Michael S. D. Hooper
其他書名
Desire Over Protest
出版Cambridge University Press, 2012-04-12
主題Drama / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / DramaLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Love & EroticaPerforming Arts / Theater / General
ISBN11070153679781107015364
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Z9Nz5me2GBcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 glamorizing 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.