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Fifteen distinguished scholars contribute original essays that analyze A Streetcar Named Desire, one of the most significant plays in modern theatre, from various critical or cultural stances, methods, or modalities. Represented as individual points of view or touched upon in the analysis are the theories of Lacan and Foucault and the tenets of Marxism; the approaches of Feminism, Reader Response Criticism, Deconstructionism, Chaos and Anti-Chaos Theory, Translation Theory, Formalism, Mythology, Perception Theory, and Gender Theory; and the perceptions of Popular Culture, Film History and Theory, Southern Letters, and assorted cultural and regional studies. The volume introduction charts the course of Streetcar criticism from its inception to the present.
Each essay begins by articulating the theoretical principles and methods behind the critical approach pursued, then applies these to readings from Streetcar, utilizing and documenting relevant major research. Insightful and challenging, the readings, individually and collectively, advance the study of the play and Tennessee Williams's canon and reputation generally. Each essay offers a fresh, provocative view of a play that has long been discussed in simplistic and dichotomized terms: Blanche as victim/Stanley as predator; Streetcar as a play about a failed southern belle meeting a brutish Pole; or Streetcar as a work of Southern literature. Viewing the play through the lenses of cultural and critical pluralism, the contributors open up the script and expand our awareness of the problems and possibilities offered by this great modern classic.
Contents
Preface Reflections on/of A Streetcar Named Desire by Philip C. Kolin Readymade Desire by Herbert Blau Marginalia: Streetcar, Williams, and Foucault by William Kleb There Are Lives that Desire Does Not Sustain: A Streetcar Named Desire by Calvin Bedient The Ontological Potentialities of Antichaos and Adaptation in A Streetcar Named Desire by Laura Morrow and Edward Morrow "We've had this date with each other from the beginning": Reading toward Closure in A Streetcar Named Desire by June Schlueter Perceptual Conflict and the Perversion of Creativity in A Streetcar Named Desire by Laurilyn J. Harris Eunice Hubbell and the Feminine Thematics of A Streetcar Named Desire by Philip C. Kolin The White Goddess, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Desire by Lionel Kelly The Myth Is the Message; or, Why Streetcar Keeps Running by Mark Royden Winchell The Broken World: Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism in A Streetcar Named Desire by W. Kenneth Holditch Birth and Death in A Streetcar Named Desire by Bert Cardullo A Streetcar Named Desire: The Political and Historical Subtext by Robert Bray The Cultural Context of A Streetcar Named Desire in Germany by Jurgen Wolter A Streetcar Named Desire: Play and Film by Gene D. Phillips, S.J.
