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The plays of Beth Henley : a critical study
- Title
- The plays of Beth Henley : a critical study / Gene A. Plunka.
- Author
- Plunka, Gene A., 1949-
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2005], ©2005.
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- Description
- v, 228 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Beth Henley's twelve complete plays have achieved worldwide production. Her first full-length drama, Crimes of the Heart, won a Pulitzer Prize and garnered three Academy Award nonimations as a film. Yet critics tend to categorize her writing as a kind of southern gothic folklore inspired by feminist ideology." "This first critical study of Henley's complete plays rejects that categorization. It argues instead that Henley delineates an existential despair manifested as the modern neurosis." "The introduction provides a brief account of Henley's childhood and career. Early chapters summarize the theory of the modern angoisse espoused in Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, and later chapters relate this theory to Henley's most popular play, Crimes of the Heart, as well as Am I Blue, The Wake of Jamie Foster, The Miss Firecracker Contest, The Debutante Ball, The Lucky Spot, Abundance, Signature, Control Freaks, Revelers, L-Play, and Impossible Marriage."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-222) and index.
- ISBN
- 0786420812 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005000095
- 9780786420810
- OCLC
- ocm57434609
- SCSB-5166517
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries