Understanding Sam Shepard
By: James A. Crank
Series: Understanding contemporary American literature
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9781611171068
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: "Written with great lucidity and wearing its considerable erudition lightly, Understanding Sam Shepard is the perfect introduction to Shepard for both beginning and advanced students of American Drama. Because of its subtlety and depth of textual analysis, the book is equally valuable for the scholar. James A. Crank unearths Shepard's buried children and their cursed families in all their complexity and mystery, making a compelling case for the unity and profundity of Shepard's mythic vision of America."--Henry I. Schvey, professor of drama and comparative literature, Wahington University in St. Louis --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding Sam Shepard; title: Experimentations with sound, language, and myth: the early plays, 1964-1976; title: Divining the cure: Curse of the starving class; title: Hidden trespasses: Buried Child; title: The authentic family: True West; title: Chaos and connection: the later works, 1983- 2009.