TY - BOOK AU - Murphy,Brenda TI - Tennessee Williams T2 - Critical insights SN - 9781587656873 (alk. paper) AV - PS 3545 .I5365 Z8445 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Pasadena, Calif. PB - Salem Press KW - Williams, Tennessee, N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-365) and index; "Works by Tennessee Williams": p. 360-362; On Tennessee Williams; Brenda Murphy --; Biography of Tennessee Williams; Robert J. Forman --; The Paris review perspective; Sasha Weiss for The Paris review --; The critical reception of the works of Tennessee Williams; Jennifer Banach --; Tennessee Williams on America; Susan C. W. Abbotson --; "Getting the colored lights going": expressionism in A streetcar named Desire; Henry I. Schvey --; Mendacity on the stage: "lying and liars" in Cat on a hot tin roof; Kenneth Elliott --; A gallery of witches; Nancy M. Tischler --; Culture, power, and the (en)gendering of community: Tennessee Williams and politics; Thomas P. Adler --; Deranged artists: creativity and madness; Jacqueline O'Connor --; Flying the Jolly Roger: images of escape and selfhood in The glass menagerie; Lori Leathers Single --; "Fifty percent illusion": The mask of the southern belle in Tennessee Williams's A streetcar named Desire, The glass menagerie, and "Portrait of a Madonna"; George Hovis --; Williams in ebony: black and multi-racial productions of A streetcar named Desire; Philip C. Kolin --; "Something cloudy, something clear": homophobic discourse in Tennessee Williams; John M. Clum --; "sneakin' and spyin'" from Broadway to the Beltway: cold war masculinity, Brick, and homosexual existentialism; John S. Bak --; "Collecting evidence": the natural world in Tennessee Williams' The night of the iguana; Rod Phillips --; Red devil battery sign: an approach to a mytho-political theatre; James Schlatter --; Tennessee Williams' Out cry in The two-character play; Nicholas O. Pagan --; Peeping Tom: voyeurism, taboo, and truth in the world of Williams's short fiction; George W. Crandell --; "The transmutation of experience": the aesthetics and themes of Williams's nonfiction; D. Dean Shackelford ER -