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Understanding Beth Henley
- Title
- Understanding Beth Henley / Robert J. Andreach.
- Author
- Andreach, Robert J.
- Publication
- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2006], ©2006.
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3558.E4962 Z525 2006 | Off-site | |
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- Description
- 192 pages; 19 cm.
- Summary
- "Beth Henley remains best known for Crimes of the Heart. In this introduction to the Mississippi-born playwright and her body of work, Robert J. Andreach presents Henley's plays as a unified whole, considering both her more accessible work of the 1980s and the commonly misunderstood - and often overlooked - plays of the 1990s. Andreach fills the gap in scholarship about the later plays and, in doing so, argues that they recast familiar themes, images, and motifs into new modes of self-discovery and expression." "Andreach's analysis features close readings of Henley's entire corpus. He positions her final three works of the 1990s as a trilogy that reconciles differing modes of self-discovery."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Understanding contemporary American literature
- Uniform Title
- Understanding contemporary American literature.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-186) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. 1980s - naturalistic plays -- Ch. 3. 1990s - initial experiments -- Ch. 4. 1990s - a trilogy of experiements -- Ch. 5. Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 157003639X (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006005141
- 9781570036392
- OCLC
- OCM64230061
- SCSB-5265573
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries