Beth Henley
Subtitle: a casebook
By: edited by Julia A. Fesmire.
Contributors: Fesmire, Julia Ann.
Series: Casebooks on modern dramatists
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Henley, Beth -- Criticism and interpretation.; Feminism and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; Southern States -- In literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-167)  and index.
Table of contents: title: Dancing on the edge of a cliff : images of the grotesque in the plays of Beth Henley / Miriam M. Chirico; title: Lessons from the past : loss and redemption in the early plays of Beth Henley / Larry G. Mapp; title: Moving beyond Mississippi : Beth Henley and the anxieties of postsouthernness / Gary Richards; title: The lucky spot as immanent critique / Rebecca King; title: Abundance or excess? : Beth Henley's postmodern romance of the true West / Karen L. Laughlin; title: Existential despair and the modern neurosis : Beth Henley's Crimes of the heart / Gene A. Plunka; title: Southern firecrackers and "real bad days" : film adaptations of Beth Henley's Crimes of the heart and the Miss Firecracker contest / Linda Rohrer Paige.