Rereading Shepard

Contemporary Critical Essays on the Plays of Sam Shepard

• Author(s): Leonard Wilcox,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 229
• ISBN_10: 1349225096
  ISBN_13: 9781349225095
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / American / General , Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Literary Criticism / Modern / General , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Performing Arts / Theater / General , Literary Criticism / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General ,

Description:... 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'?