Confronting Tennessee William's A streetcar named Desire : essays in critical pluralism

Kolin, Philip C. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0313266816 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xi, 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c1993.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-239) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Reflections on/of A Streetcar Named Desire / Phillip C. Kolin -- 2. Readymade Desire / Herbert Blau -- 3. Marginalia: Streetcar, Williams, and Foucault / William Kleb -- 4. There Are Lives that Desire Does Not Sustain: A Streetcar Named Desire / Calvin Bedient -- 5. Ontological Potentialities of Antichaos and Adaptation in A Streetcar Named Desire / Laura Morrow and Edward Morrow -- 6. "We've had this date with each other from the beginning": Reading toward Closure in A Streetcar Named Desire / June Schlueter -- 7. Perceptual Conflict and the Perversion of Creativity in A Streetcar Named Desire / Laurilyn J. Harris -- 8. Eunice Hubbell and the Feminist Thematics of A Streetcar Named Desire / Philip C. Kolin -- 9. White Goddess, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Desire / Lionel Kelly -- 10. Myth Is the Message, or Why Streetcar Keeps Running / Mark Royden Winchell -- 11. Broken World: Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism in A Streetcar Named Desire / W. Kenneth Holditch -- 12. Birth and Death in A Streetcar Named Desire / Bert Cardullo -- 13. Streetcar Named Desire: The Political and Historical Subtext / Robert Bray -- 14. Cultural Context of A Streetcar Named Desire in Germany / Jurgen C. Wolter -- 15. Streetcar Named Desire: Play and Film / Gene D. Phillips -- Bibliography of Scholarship on Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire.