內容簡介
本是“劍橋文學指南”叢書中的一本,收入了當代西方著名學者撰寫的14篇關於田納西·威廉斯的論文,涵蓋面相當廣泛,不僅論述了威廉斯創作的主要戲劇,而且還涉及到他的短篇小說和詩歌。論文分別介紹了威廉斯的早期生活及家庭對他的影響。分析了歐美文學對他的戲劇創作的影響。
圖書目錄
"List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Chronology
Introducti
N_MATTHEW C.ROUDANE
1 Early Williams:the making of aplaywright
ALLEANHALE
2 Entering The Glassmenagerie
C.W.E.BIGSBY
3 A streetcar running fifty years
FELICIAHardisonLONDRE
4 Camino Real:Williamssallegoryabout the fifties
JAN BALAKI
N_5 Writing in“A place of stone”:Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
ALBERT J.DEVL
N_6 Before the Fall-and after:Summer and Smoke and The Night of theiguana
THOMASP.ADLER
7 The sacrificial stud and the fugitive female in Suddenly Last Summer,Orpbeus Descending,and Sweet Bird of Youth
JOHN M.CLUM
8 Romantic textures in Tennessee Williamss plays and short stories
NANCY M.TISCHLER
9 Creative rewriting:European and American influences on the dramas of Tennessee Williams
GILBERT DEBUSSCHER
10 Seeking directi
N_ BRENDA MUROPHY
11 Hollywood in crisis:Tennessee Williams and the evolution of the adult film
R.BARTON PALMER
12 Tennessee Williams:the last two decades
RUBY CO
N_13 Words on Williams:a bibliographic essay
JACQUELINE OCONNOR
14 The Strangest Kind of Romance:Tennessee Williams and his Broadway critics
JACQUELINE OCONNOR
Selected bibliography
Index"