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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Tennessee Williams"”.
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Rethinking Tennessee Williams' "Desperate" Women
… are examined frequently in scholarship on Tennessee Williams's plays, many critics assume that the three women's Southern femininity translates to fragility and that their nostalgia for the Confederate past constitutes delusion. Distancing our perceptions of the three women from the common …
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El miedo en la producción dramática de Tennessee Williams
… los que se vertebran las obras dramáticas de Tennessee Williams. El miedo estaba presente en la vida del autor e inevitablemente contaminó su producción literaria. Todos sus personajes son víctimas del miedo.
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Tennessee Williams and the southern dialetic : in search of androgyny
… the most significant literary achievement of Tennessee Williams. Though her rape functions dramatically as a powerful climax which has troubled critics and bothered audiences, it is more a thematic culmination of Blanche's inability to sequester her sexuality. In fact, nearly everything …
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Mikhail Bakhtin's Literary Theory Applied to Selected Plays by Tennessee Williams
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Childless Women in the Plays of William Inge, Tennessee Williams, and Edward Albee
… American playwrights—William Inge, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee—and their dramatic use of childless women characters in Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) respectively. Although the plays of Inge, Williams, and …
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A Study of Directorial Choices in Tennessee Williams' Play Out Cry Focused on Selected Expressionistic Elements
<p>Tennesse Williams' play, OUT CRY, uses many of the expressionistic and symbolic elements he used successfully throughout his career. The characters of OUT CRY struggle with the fear of isolation, of entrapment and of sexual relationship. The aim of my thesis is to focus on selected …
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The Jaded Garden:a cross-cultural comparison of nostalgic female characters by Pai Hsien-yung and Tennessee Williams
… Dream," and "A Celestial in Mundane Exile," and Tennessee Williams's two plays: The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. Beginning with a brief discussion of the socio-historical background of Pai's Republican China and Williams's American South, a general analysis of previous …
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The horror film genre as an interpretive device in an adaptation of Tennessee Williams 's Suddenly last summer
… adaptation for film of Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams. The play tells the story of a young woman, Catharine Holly, who has been institutionalized shortly after her return to New Orleans from a vacation on the island of Cabeza de Lobo. Her cousin, Sebastian, a wealthy poet and gay …
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Redefining the Gothic: How the Works of Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams & Flannery O'Connor Retained Gothic Roots and Shaped the Southern Gothic
… the commonalities between Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams and Flannery O’Connor, particularly in terms of three main themes: isolation, the pervasion of American normalcy and gender roles. While each of these authors clearly inserts some autobiographical information into his or her …
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Y'all Think We're Stupid: Deconstructing Media Stereotypes of The American South
… Southern authors, like William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams, are examined for the images they employ. Further, films such as Deliverance and Sweet Home Alabama, as well as television shows like The Dukes of Hazzard and The Beverly Hillbillies are analyzed for how they convey stereotypes …
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Memories: The Lighting Design for “The Glass Menagerie”
… use of color and texture. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams was presented at the University of Arkansas in September of 2017. The challenges of this production will be addressed as well as the achievements and areas of improvement of this production. Finally, this document will answer the …
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Uno studio sui cambiamenti di traduzione applicati nell'adattamento cinematografico delle opere letterarie: Lo zoo di vetro, Il pianista e La tragedia di Macbeth
… in particolare The Glass Menagerie di Tennessee Williams, The Pianist di Władysław Szpilman e Macbeth di William Shakespeare. Utilizzando la teoria della traduzione intersemiotica di Roman Jakobson e il modello di cambiamenti di traduzione di Van Leuven-Zwart, questa ricerca analizza …
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A study of image, symbol, and theme in La casa de Bernarda Alba
… the plays of Lorca's contemporaries, such as 'Tennessee Williams, for example. Ironically, Williams' early plays evince a definite. Lorquian influence. Close attention has been paid to the poetic texture of.Williams plays, providing an important contribution to understanding the art of his …
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Queer Tastes: An Exploration of Food and Sexuality in Southern Lesbian Literature
… often silenced within southern literature. Where Tennessee Williams used literature to bridge gaps between gay men and the South, southern lesbian literature severely lacks a traceable history of such connections. The principal objective of this thesis is to explore the ways in which southern …
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THE MUSEUM OF LIFE SCIENCE - TOWARDS A HOLISTIC SCIENCE EDUCATION
… in dignity and the importance of the question' Tennessee Williams The premise of this thesis lies in the various emerging philosophies concerning science education in the 21 st century, where there is a paradigm shift from mechanistic 'textbook - based education' to a more systematic and …
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Feminist Theory and Postwar American Drama
… prominent figures in the traditional canon (Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Lillian Hellman, Sam Shepard, John Guare, David Mamet, and David Rabe) as well as some women playwrights who would not generally be placed there (Jane Bowles, Carson McCullers, Maria Irene Fornes, Joan Schenkar, …
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Clifford Odets: playwright-poet
… to the development of such later writers as Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Paddy Chayevsky, William Gibson and Lorraine Hansberry—his plays are nevertheless regarded as museum pieces. His critical standing among literary scholars has been touched by condescension and distorted by …
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The Stage on Screen: The Representation of Theatre in Film
… intricate uses of play-within-a-film (invoking Tennessee Williams and Lorca), film-within-a-film (referring to Mankiewicz' All about Eve and Cassavetes' Opening Night), and play-within-a-film-within-a-film. I explore how Almodóvar grounds the psychological and social outlining of the female …
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