Romantic Representation of the City in Selected Plays of Tennessee Williams
The aim of the article is to show similarities between representation of the city in two texts of American romantic authors, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and two dramas of Tennessee Williams, a playwright of the post WWII era. While it is a well-known fact that writers contemporary to...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Bucharest University Press
2016-06-01
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| Series: | University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/AgnieszkaWo%C5%BAniakowska.pdf |
| Summary: | The aim of the article is to show similarities between representation of the
city in two texts of American romantic authors, Herman Melville and Nathaniel
Hawthorne, and two dramas of Tennessee Williams, a playwright of the post WWII
era. While it is a well-known fact that writers contemporary to Williams, such as Allen
Ginsberg or Saul Bellow, reached back to romantic tradition for literary inspiration,
not much is known about the extent to which American playwrights were influenced
by American romantic men of letters. The main purpose of the present article is to try
to show that the romantic opposition between urban spaces and natural environment
is present in plays by Tennessee Williams. |
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| ISSN: | 2734-5963 |