Tennessee Williams : t-shirt modernism and the refashionings of theater /
S.E. Gontarski.
Bok Engelsk 2021 S. E. Gontarski,· Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Anthem Press
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xii, 118 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Feb 2022).. - Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter Int-4 -- Saint Tennessee -- Chapter 1 T-Shirt Modernism and Performed Masculinities -- Chapter 2 "Intense Honesty": Race, Sex and Cross-Cultural Perspectives -- Part I: Racialized Tennessee -- Free People of Color -- Part II: Anglicizing Williams, London's Post-World War II Theater Climate -- At the Lord Chamberlain's Office -- "The Start of Modern Drama" -- The Lord Chamberlain's Blue Pencil -- Creative Frisson -- Part III: Summary -- Chapter 3 Becoming Samuel Beckett -- Chapter 4 Reframing Tennessee: A Short Afterword -- Case Studies -- End Matter -- Notes -- Saint Tennessee: An Introduction -- Chapter 1 T-Shirt Modernism and Performed Masculinities: The Theatrical Refashionings of Tennessee Williams and William Inge -- Chapter 2 "Intense Honesty": Race, Sex and Cross-Cultural Perspectives -- Chapter 3 Becoming Samuel Beckett: Tennessee Williams and Theatrical Change on the Post-World War II World Stage -- Chapter 4 Reframing Tennessee: A Short Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index.. - <i>Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism and the Refashionings of Theater</i> refocuses the work of Tennessee Williams against the larger fabric of cultural change in the post-World War II era in which he came to prominence, an era in which the rate of cultural change accelerated unprecedentedly as the late 40s became the 50s, the 50s the 60s, the 60s the 70s, etc. into periods of fragmentation and dislocation, a cultural unmooring we now generally (if too loosely) call postmodern, or, more accurately, perhaps, late modern. The study engages the Williams we thought we knew, as he grew, developed, reconfigured himself into a playwright we didn't, in his attempts to refashion himself amid the vortices of changing sexual mores, including the performance of masculinities and the queering of theater, the struggle for a literate, literary theater, and the place of the theatrical experience in his contemporary culture.
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| Emner | Williams, Tennessee, , 1911-1983 - Criticism and interpretation.
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| ISBN | 1-78527-689-1
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