Reviews for Confronting Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire: Essays in Critical Pluralism, Vol. 50

The average rating for Confronting Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire: Essays in Critical Pluralism, Vol. 50 based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-05-22 00:00:00 Joseph Manion Dennis Perry writes a nice book on the connections between Alfred Hitchcock and Edgar Allan Poe. Many of the thematic parallels addressed by Perry have been fairly common topics of critical discussion for Hitchcock and Poe studies people. This book, however, is the first time the two have been talked about together, which might not be that interesting a thing for some. Fair enough. But the commonalities that Poe and Hitchcock share are interesting and show how the same topics of discussion - voyeurism, duality, the sublime, psychological fracture, etc. - have been addressed at different points in time by two different artistic mediums. In that way, it is fun to read about how Poe expressed through literature similar things that Hitchcock expressed cinematically. Well-read critics and scholars of Hitchcock and/or Poe might not gain much from this book; but for a class of undergraduates wanting to learn something about Hitchcock and Poe could really benefit from this book. I particularly like how Perry uses Poe's Eureka to help guide his analysis. I'm less enthusiastic about some of the Jungisn psychoanalysis, but that is more of a taste issue. Perry shows an enthusiasm for Hitchcock and Poe, which is cool. This book provides enough interesting analysis to help any novice of Hitchcock and/or Poe studies.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-06-21 00:00:00 Paul Bardal I wanted to study autobiography as a literary genre, but this is more about gnere mixing, novels with strong autobiographical elements, which is also cool, but not quite what I was after...