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Rereading Shepard

Contemporary Critical Essays on the Plays of Sam Shepard

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  • © 1993

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  1. Leonard Wilcox

    1. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Leonard Wilcox
    Pages 1-7

  3. Artifacts: The Early Plays Reconsidered

    • Gerald Weales
    Pages 8-21

  4. Potential Performance Texts for The Rock Garden and 4-H Club

    • Dennis Carroll
    Pages 22-41

  5. The Desert and the City: Operation Sidewinder and Shepard’s Postmodern Allegory

    • Leonard Wilcox
    Pages 42-57

  6. Memory and Mind: Sam Shepard’s Geography of a Horse Dreamer

    • Gerry McCarthy
    Pages 58-76

  7. Shepard’s Challenge to the Modernist Myths of Origin and Originality: Angel City and True West

    • Sheila Rabillard
    Pages 77-96

  8. True Stories: Reading the Autobiographic in Cowboy Mouth, ‘True Dylan’ and Buried Child

    • Ann Wilson
    Pages 97-114

  9. Shepard’s Family Trilogy and the Conventions of Modern Realism

    • Charles R. Lyons
    Pages 115-130

  10. A Kind of Cavorting: Superpresence and Shepard’s Family Dramas

    • David J. DeRose
    Pages 131-149

  11. Speaking Without Words: the Myth of Masculine Autonomy in Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love

    • Ann C. Hall
    Pages 150-167

  12. When a Woman Looks: The ‘Other’ Audience of Shepard’s Plays

    • Susan Bennett
    Pages 168-179

  13. Lighting Out for the Territory Within: Field Notes on Shepard’s Expressionist Vision

    • Sherrill Grace
    Pages 180-195

  14. ‘I Smash the Tools of my Captivity’: The Feminine in Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind

    • Jane Ann Crum
    Pages 196-214

  15. A Motel of the Mind: Fool for Love and A Lie of the Mind

    • Felicia Hardison Londré
    Pages 215-224

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 225-229
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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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  • University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Leonard Wilcox

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