David Mamet
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Series: Bloom's modern critical views
Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Mamet, David -- Criticism and interpretation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-271) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sexual perversity in Chicago / Anne Dean; title: David Mamet and Ben Jonson : city comedy past and present / Douglas Bruster; title: Jewish aporia : the rhythm of talking in Mamet / Toby Silverman Zinman; title: Man among men : David Mamet's homosocial order / David Radavich; title: David Mamet / Edward J. Esche; title: Anti-theatricality and American ideology : Mamet's performative realism / Michael L. Quinn; title: Plato in Hollywood : David Mamet and the power of illusions / Howard Pearce; title: Gathering sparks / Leslie Kane; title: David Mamet : all true stories / C.W.E. Bigsby; title: Oleanna and The children's hour : misreading sexuality on the post/modern realistic stage / David Kennedy Sauer; title: Prophecy and parody in Edmond / Richard Brucher; title: Reinscribing the "Fairy" : the knife and the mystification of male mythology in the Cryptogram / Linda Dorff.