Rereading Shepard
Author | : Leonard Wilcox |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 1993-02-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781349225095 |
ISBN-13 | : 1349225096 |
Rating | : 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Download or read book Rereading Shepard written by Leonard Wilcox and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-02-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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'?