Blue Song: St. Louis in the Life and Work of Tennessee Williams - Brossura

Schvey, Henry I.

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ISBN 10: 0826222617 ISBN 13: 9780826222619

Casa editrice: Univ of Missouri Pr, 2022

Riassunto

In 2011, the centennial of Tennessee Williams’s birth, events were held around the world honoring America’s greatest playwright. There were festivals, conferences, and exhibitions held in places closely associated with Williams’s life and career—New Orleans held major celebrations, as did New York, Key West, and Provincetown. But absolutely nothing was done to celebrate Williams’s life and extraordinary literary and theatrical career in the place that he lived in longest, and called home longer than any other—St. Louis, Missouri.

The question of this paradox lies at the heart of this book, an attempt not so much to correct the record about Williams’s well-chronicled dislike of the city, but rather to reveal how the city was absolutely indispensable to his formation and development both as a person and artist. Unlike the prevailing scholarly narrative that suggests that Williams discovered himself artistically and sexually in the deep South and New Orleans, Blue Song reveals that Williams remained emotionally tethered to St. Louis for a host of reasons for the rest of his life.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Henry I. Schvey is Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis and the author of three books, including Oskar Kokoschka: The Painter as Playwright. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Missouri Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0826222617
• ISBN 13: 9780826222619
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 236
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile