Tennessee Williams (Modern Critical Views) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791094308 ISBN 13: 9780791094303

Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers, 2007

Synopsis

Tennessee Williams is recognized as one of America's greatest dramatists, and as an innovator of post-World War II theater. He looked for a mechanism for portraying the truth in theater at a time when traditional approaches no longer worked. Bold with form as well as subject matter, Williams confronted audiences with what had been taboo topics - sexuality, societal constraints, alcoholism, and brutality. His notable contributions to literature include ""The Glass Menagerie"", ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"", and ""A Streetcar Named Desire"". This newly updated volume from the ""Bloom's Modern Critical Views"" series features essays that examine the life and legacy of this formidable storyteller, and serves as an excellent guide for students curious to learn how Williams innovatively presented his daring topics within a highly lyrical context.

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"The accounts offer students an opportunity to absorb serious analytical styles."

..."excellent critical guide sets edited by Harold Bloom...recommended picks for audiences of young adults studying literature."

"A publishing venture almost without precedent both in its scope and in the fact that it is guided by a single critical intelligence."

"This collection of previously published essays, edited by the distinguished literary scholar Harold Bloom, is an excellent addition to the Wells critical canon."

"Harold Bloom adds some fantastic critical literary guides, providing interpretations and issues that should reach a wide audience from adults to young adults at the high school and college levels."

About this edition

• Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0791094308
• ISBN 13: 9780791094303
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 211
• Editor: Harold Bloom