New readings
Subtitle: Shaw at the sesquicentennial
By: edited by MaryAnn K. Crawford and Heidi J. Holder.
Contributors: Holder, Heidi J.; Crawford, MaryAnn K.
Series: Shaw -- v. 26.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: University Park
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780271029689
Subjects: Shaw, Bernard, -- 1856-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: reading and re-reading: Shaw post-150 years / Heidi J. Holder and MaryAnn K. Crawford; title: Bearing witness: Heartbreak House and the poetics of trauma / Desmond Harding; title: The talking cure / Jean Reynolds; title: Pre-Oedipal Shaw: "It's always the mother" / Lagretta Tallent Lenker; title: What runs (in) the family: iterated retelling, gender and genre in You Never Can Tell and Major Barbara / Dorothy A. Hadfield; title: The ungendered will and the Shavian superman / Monica A. Zabrouski and Robert P. Kirschmann; title: Doing proper things for improper reasons: spiritual ambivalence in Major Barbara / Frank Manista; title: Late capitalism and the United States in The Apple Cart / C. Brook Miller; title: Shaw's epic theater / Lisa A. Wilde; title: Shaw reinterpreted / Nicholas Williams; title: Shaw's everyday emergency: commodification and John Bull's Other Island / Brand Kent; title: Colonialism, postcolonialism, and the shadow of a new empire: John Bull's Other Island / Kathleen Ochshorn; title: Colonial locations of contested space and John Bull's Other Island / Peter Gahamn; title: Reviews.