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A Quest for the Unicorn: Rereading the Plays of Tennessee Williams: A Study in Deconstruction and Intertextuality With a Foreword by John Russell Brown - Couverture souple

Panda, Ram Narayan

 
9783639335286: A Quest for the Unicorn: Rereading the Plays of Tennessee Williams: A Study in Deconstruction and Intertextuality With a Foreword by John Russell Brown
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3639335287 ISBN 13 : 9783639335286
Editeur : VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2011

Synopsis

This book attempts a rereading of the plays of Tennessee Williams by using certain poststructuralist strategies of reading oriented to establishing that a ?rereading? unveils the workings of the principle of ?difference? by which the attempts at totalization are ?always already? defeated whereby it becomes difficult to make definitive statements about entities, characters and motifs?or the signified. Part One focuses on self-difference by using methods of binary deconstruction by way of explaining textuality as a matter of difference. Part Two highlights textuality as a matter of intertextuality rather than a logocentric construct basing itself on external points of reference, or the transcendental signified. Part Three focuses on the irreversible Barthesian codes to show how certain plays of Williams remain openended without offering definite ideas about characters, issues and relationships. Justifying the title of the book, the ?Preface' and the ?Conclusion,' highlight how the plays of Williams problematize conclusive notions about issues. On the whole, the book illustrates the hermeneutic richness of American drama.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book attempts a rereading of the plays of Tennessee Williams by using certain poststructuralist strategies of reading oriented to establishing that a ?rereading? unveils the workings of the principle of ?difference? by which the attempts at totalization are ?always already? defeated whereby it becomes difficult to make definitive statements about entities, characters and motifs?or the signified. Part One focuses on self-difference by using methods of binary deconstruction by way of explaining textuality as a matter of difference. Part Two highlights textuality as a matter of intertextuality rather than a logocentric construct basing itself on external points of reference, or the transcendental signified. Part Three focuses on the irreversible Barthesian codes to show how certain plays of Williams remain openended without offering definite ideas about characters, issues and relationships. Justifying the title of the book, the ?Preface' and the ?Conclusion,' highlight how the plays of Williams problematize conclusive notions about issues. On the whole, the book illustrates the hermeneutic richness of American drama.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr Ram Narayan panda, Ph.D.(Utkal Univ.): Professor and Head, Department of English, Berhampur University, Berhampur-760007, INDIA. Amateur stage actor and director. Published many articles in journals of repute in India and abroad, poems and short stories in Oriya and English, contemplative essays in TOI and an edited anthology of poems.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639335287
ISBN 13 
9783639335286
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
212
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Personne responsable
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