Rereading Shepard: Contemporary Critical Essays on the Plays of Sam Shepard

Wilcox, Leonard

Rereading Shepard draws together 13 original theoretical perspectives on one of America's most important contemporary playwrights. Representing a range of critical appraoches - including semiotics, deconstruction, and feminism - the essays address recent debates emerging in Shepard criticism. These include the status of Shepard's texts within the modernist tradition on the one hand and a developing post-modernism on the other, and the feminist debate over Shepard's drama - does it reinforce a masculinist world or does it provide some oppositional stance toward patriarchal 'master narratives'?

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1992-12-18

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780312074791

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22509-5

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 229