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Rereading Shepard: Contemporary Critical Essays on the Plays of Sam Shepard

By Leonard Wilcox (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1993
ISBN
978-1-349-22511-8, 978-1-349-22509-5, 978-0-312-07479-1
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-22509-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
23 MB (23822534 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XII, 229\241
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
North American Literature; Twentieth-Century Liter

Description

Rereading Shepard draws together 13 original theoretical perspectives on one of America's most important contemporary playwrights. Representing a range of critical appraoches - including semiotics, deconstruction, and feminism - the essays address recent debates emerging in Shepard criticism. These include the status of Shepard's texts within the modernist tradition on the one hand and a developing post-modernism on the other, and the feminist debate over Shepard's drama - does it reinforce a masculinist world or does it provide some oppositional stance toward patriarchal 'master narratives'?

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