Tennessee Williams /
Tennessee Williams / a streetcar namd desire.
edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
- New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2007.
- 136 p. ; 25 cm.
- Bloom's modern critical views .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-200) and index.
Babbling lunatics : language and madness / The sacrificial stud and the fugitive female in Suddenly last summer, Orpheus descending, and Sweet bird of youth / Romantic textures in Tennessee Williams's plays and short stories / The blue rose of St. Louis : Laura, romanticism, and The glass menagerie / "I prefer the 'mad' ones" : Tennessee Williams's grotesque-lyric exegetical poems / "The transmutation of experience" : the aesthetics and themes of Tennessee Williams's nonfiction / Desire, death, and laughter : tragicomic dramaturgy in A streetcar named Desire / Critical expectations and assumptions : Williams' later reputation and the American reception of the avant-garde / Two transient plays : A streetcar named Desire and Camino real / The family of mitch : (un)suitable suitors in Tennessee Williams / "Fifty percent illusion": the mask of the southern belle in Tennessee Williams's A streetcar named Desire, The glass menagerie, and "portrait of a madonna" / Jacqueline O'Connor -- John M. Clum -- Nancy M. Tischler -- Bert Cardullo -- Linda Dorff -- D. Dean Shackelford -- Verna Foster -- Annette J. Saddik -- Frank Bradley -- Philip C. Kolin -- George Hovis.
8130904616
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 --Criticism and interpretation.
Southern States--In literature.
812.54
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-200) and index.
Babbling lunatics : language and madness / The sacrificial stud and the fugitive female in Suddenly last summer, Orpheus descending, and Sweet bird of youth / Romantic textures in Tennessee Williams's plays and short stories / The blue rose of St. Louis : Laura, romanticism, and The glass menagerie / "I prefer the 'mad' ones" : Tennessee Williams's grotesque-lyric exegetical poems / "The transmutation of experience" : the aesthetics and themes of Tennessee Williams's nonfiction / Desire, death, and laughter : tragicomic dramaturgy in A streetcar named Desire / Critical expectations and assumptions : Williams' later reputation and the American reception of the avant-garde / Two transient plays : A streetcar named Desire and Camino real / The family of mitch : (un)suitable suitors in Tennessee Williams / "Fifty percent illusion": the mask of the southern belle in Tennessee Williams's A streetcar named Desire, The glass menagerie, and "portrait of a madonna" / Jacqueline O'Connor -- John M. Clum -- Nancy M. Tischler -- Bert Cardullo -- Linda Dorff -- D. Dean Shackelford -- Verna Foster -- Annette J. Saddik -- Frank Bradley -- Philip C. Kolin -- George Hovis.
8130904616
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 --Criticism and interpretation.
Southern States--In literature.
812.54