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Undiscovered Country : The Later Plays of Tennessee Williams by Philip C. Kolin (2002, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherLang A&G International Academic Publishers, Peter
ISBN-100820451304
ISBN-139780820451305
eBay Product ID (ePID)2228543
Product Key Features
Number of PagesX, 223 Pages
Publication NameUndiscovered Country : the Later Plays of Tennessee Williams
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
SubjectEnglish As a Second Language, General, American / General
FeaturesNew Edition
TypeTextbook
AuthorPhilip C. Kolin
Subject AreaForeign Language Study, Drama
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height1 in
Item Weight11.6 Oz
Item Length6 in
Item Width9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2002-004438
ReviewsWith this volume of 15 provocative essays on the later plays, Philip Kolin makes another major contribution to the study of Tennessee Williams' work. It will provide a strong foundation on which to build a new understanding of the significance and quality of these undeservedly neglected plays. Employing an extraordinary range of knowledge to inform their analyses - from the theories of Artaud and Brecht to the aesthetics of N and Postmodernism to the disciplines of theology and philosophy - these distinguished scholars and critics have written readable and enlightening essays that will undoubtedly serve as an incentive to future study and criticism. (Brenda Murphy, Professor of English, University of Connecticut) Philip Kolin's 'The Undiscovered Country' is an important and unique addition to Tennessee Williams scholarship. These fifteen essays invite readers to reconsider the value of the later works of Williams, and do so in fresh, original ways. This collection provides an engaging corrective to the neglect and discredit that have long haunted the last two decades of Williams' career. (Matthew Roudan, Professor of English and Chair, Georgia State University) A well-equipped band of scholars track Tennessee Williams into 'The Undiscovered Country' of old age - when Williams wrote many of his largely unknown slapstick tragedies. These transgressive plays are wildly experimental, full of cartoon characters, painful pratfalls, garish ghosts, and idiosyncratic insights. Like their European contemporaries, these dramas mirror a confused and confusing world. We owe a debt of gratitude to these sturdy critics who help us understand and appreciate the late Tennessee Williams. (Nancy M. Tischler, Professor Emerita, The Pennsylvania State University), «With this volume of 15 provocative essays on the later plays, Philip Kolin makes another major contribution to the study of Tennessee Williams' work. It will provide a strong foundation on which to build a new understanding of the significance and quality of these undeservedly neglected plays. Employing an extraordinary range of knowledge to inform their analyses - from the theories of Artaud and Brecht to the aesthetics of N and Postmodernism to the disciplines of theology and philosophy - these distinguished scholars and critics have written readable and enlightening essays that will undoubtedly serve as an incentive to future study and criticism.» (Brenda Murphy, Professor of English, University of Connecticut) «Philip Kolin's 'The Undiscovered Country' is an important and unique addition to Tennessee Williams scholarship. These fifteen essays invite readers to reconsider the value of the later works of Williams, and do so in fresh, original ways. This collection provides an engaging corrective to the neglect and discredit that have long haunted the last two decades of Williams' career.» (Matthew Roudané, Professor of English and Chair, Georgia State University) «A well-equipped band of scholars track Tennessee Williams into 'The Undiscovered Country' of old age - when Williams wrote many of his largely unknown slapstick tragedies. These transgressive plays are wildly experimental, full of cartoon characters, painful pratfalls, garish ghosts, and idiosyncratic insights. Like their European contemporaries, these dramas mirror a confused and confusing world. We owe a debt of gratitude to these sturdy critics who help us understand and appreciate the late Tennessee Williams.» (Nancy M. Tischler, Professor Emerita, The Pennsylvania State University), «With this volume of 15 provocative essays on the later plays, Philip Kolin makes another major contribution to the study of Tennessee Williams_ work. It will provide a strong foundation on which to build a new understanding of the significance and quality of these undeservedly neglected plays. Employing an extraordinary range of knowledge to inform their analyses _ from the theories of Artaud and Brecht to the aesthetics of N and Postmodernism to the disciplines of theology and philosophy _ these distinguished scholars and critics have written readable and enlightening essays that will undoubtedly serve as an incentive to future study and criticism.» (Brenda Murphy, Professor of English, University of Connecticut) «Philip Kolin_s _The Undiscovered Country_ is an important and unique addition to Tennessee Williams scholarship. These fifteen essays invite readers to reconsider the value of the later works of Williams, and do so in fresh, original ways. This collection provides an engaging corrective to the neglect and discredit that have long haunted the last two decades of Williams_ career.» (Matthew Roudané, Professor of English and Chair, Georgia State University) «A well-equipped band of scholars track Tennessee Williams into _The Undiscovered Country_ of old age _ when Williams wrote many of his largely unknown slapstick tragedies. These transgressive plays are wildly experimental, full of cartoon characters, painful pratfalls, garish ghosts, and idiosyncratic insights. Like their European contemporaries, these dramas mirror a confused and confusing world. We owe a debt of gratitude to these sturdy critics who help us understand and appreciate the late Tennessee Williams.» (Nancy M. Tischler, Professor Emerita, The Pennsylvania State University)
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
Number of Volumes0 vols.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal812/.54
Edition DescriptionNew Edition
Table Of ContentContents: Philip C. Kolin: Introduction - Annette J. Saddik: «The Inexpressible Regret of All Her Regrets»: Tennessee Williams's Later Plays as Artaudian Theatre of Cruelty - Michael Paller: The Day on Which a Woman Dies: The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore and No Theatre - Allean Hale: The Gnädiges Fräulein : Tennessee Williams's Clown Show - Una Chaudhuri: «AWK!»: Extremity, Animality, and the Aesthetic of Awkwardness in Tennessee Williams's The Gnädiges Fräulein - Gene D. Phillips, S.J.: Tennessee Williams's Forgotten Film: The Last of the Mobile Hot-Shots as a Screen Version of The Seven Descents of Myrtle - Terri Smith Ruckel: Ut Pictura Poesis, Ut Poesis Pictura : The Painterly Texture of Tennessee Williams's In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel - Felicia Hardison Londré: The Two-Character Out Cry and Break Out - Philip C. Kolin: «having lost the ability to say: 'My God!'»: The Theology of Tennessee Williams's Small Craft Warnings - Robert F. Gross: The Gnostic Politics of The Red Devil Battery Sign - Robert Bray: Vieux Carré: Transferring «A Story of Mood» - Verna Foster: Waiting for Buddy, or Just Going on in A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur - George W. Crandell: «I Can't Imagine Tomorrow»: Tennessee Williams and the Representations of Time in Clothes for a Summer Hotel - Norma Jenckes: «Let's Face the Music and Dance»: Resurgent Romanticism in Tennessee Williams's Camino Real and Clothes for a Summer Hotel - James Fisher: «In My Leftover Heart»: Confessional Autobiography in Tennessee Williams's Something Cloudy, Something Clear - Thomas Keith: A House Not Meant to Stand - Tennessee's Haunted Last Laugh.
SynopsisWilliams' later canon - post Night of the Iguana - has not received the intensive critical attention his earlier works have. The fifteen original essays in this book, written by leading authorities on Tennessee Williams, examine the energy and variety of Williams' late work in light of critical theory and performance objectives to reveal a powerful and rarely gifted experimental artist at work. Rather than seeing the works of the 1960s-1980s as a falling off of Williams' talent, the essays here demonstrate and argue that they are vital to the Williams canon and to American (and world) theatre alike.
LC Classification NumberPS3545.I5365Z848
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