Isbn: 9781107015364 - sexual politics in the work of tennessee williams: desire over protest (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. Is Tennessee Williams a social writer at heart? Hooper questions this view, presenting a new interpretation of the dramatist. Num Pages: 260 pages, 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 55. . 2012. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 260 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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. …