Tennessee Williams [electronic resource] : A Literary Life /
Bak, J.author.
This Literary Life draws extensively from the playwright's correspondences, notebooks, and archival papers to offer an original angle to the discussion of Williams's life and work, and the times and circumstances that helped produce it.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Columbus to Columbia (via St Louis): Separating Fact from Fiction; 2 University City to Clayton (via Memphis): Looking for a Publisher in Spring; 3 University City to New Orleans (via Iowa City): Academic Blues versus 'American Blues'; 4 New Orleans to Hollywood (via Acapulco): Mañana Es Otro Día; 5 Hollywood to Rome (via Chicago): The 'Catastrophe' of his Success; 6 Rome to Rome (via Nearly Everywhere Else): 'Comfortable Little Mercies'; 7 New York to New York (via Miami): A Battle of Angles
8 Tokyo to St Louis (via Spoleto): The Stoned(wall) Age9 Key West to New York (via Bangkok): In Search of Androgyny; 10 Chicago to St Louis (via Vancouver): 'Right (Write) On!'; 11 Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This Literary Life draws extensively from the playwright's correspondences, notebooks, and archival papers to offer an original angle to the discussion of Williams's life and work, and the times and circumstances that helped produce it.
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.
America—Literatures.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Fiction.
Theater—History.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Fiction.
Theatre History.