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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Shannon Blake Skelton (Kansas State University, USA)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Methuen Drama Weight: 0.350kg ISBN: 9781350035607ISBN 10: 1350035602 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 19 October 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: How Many Lives . . . Within This One? : The Performances of Sam Shepard Chapter 2: What's Beyond Authentic? : Authenticity and Artistry in Don't Come Knocking and Kicking a Dead Horse Chapter 3: One of Us Has Forgotten : Memory and Trauma in Simpatico, The Late Henry Moss and When the World was Green Chapter 4: I Miss the Cold War So Much : Interrogating Masculine and Conservative Narratives in States of Shock and The God of Hell Chapter 5: Surrounded by My Primitive Captors : Hybridity and Hegemony in Silent Tongue and Eyes for Consuela Chapter 6: Where's All the Men? : Men, Women and Homosociality in the Late Style of Sam Shepard Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography IndexReviewsThe best chapter charts all the echoes of Shepard's biography, media persona and actual writings in the variety of film and television roles he has played since his Oscar-nominated turn as Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff ... [Skelton] is also good on Shepard's cultural status. Times Literary Supplement Shannon Skelton has produced an excellent, insightful, and unique study of the later plays of Sam Shepard. This is an intelligent book, one that is essential for anyone interested in Sam Shepard and the contemporary stage. -- Matthew Roudane, Georgia State University, USA Skelton's The Late Work of Sam Shepard addresses a lacuna in Shepard scholarship. Most of the critical attention given to Shepard's work centers on his early productions, and the playwright's waning popularity has certainly contributed to this lack of attention. Skelton (Kansas State Univ.) examines nine works written since 1988, looking at how Shepard's later style reveals, as she writes in the introduction, a maturing of the Shepard persona and a willingness to explore different media, subjects, and aesthetics and ... to pose solutions to dilemmas previously considered yet never resolved. Skelton examines both the intertextual and the transmedial ( a mode of storytelling that transcends one medium and develops on various platforms ) qualities of these works. A key feature of the later works is the ability of characters to resolve issues and concerns raised in earlier works: as an example, Skelton compares The Late Henry Moss (2002) with True West (1980), looking at how the later work solves the issues of personal conflict left unresolved in the earlier play. Offering a range of critical approaches and exhibiting scholarly sophistication, this is an intelligent, overdue contribution to the literature on Shepard. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. CHOICE The best chapter charts all the echoes of Shepard's biography, media persona and actual writings in the variety of film and television roles he has played since his Oscar-nominated turn as Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff ... [Skelton] is also good on Shepard's cultural status. * Times Literary Supplement * Shannon Skelton has produced an excellent, insightful, and unique study of the later plays of Sam Shepard. This is an intelligent book, one that is essential for anyone interested in Sam Shepard and the contemporary stage. -- Matthew Roudane, Georgia State University, USA Skelton's The Late Work of Sam Shepard addresses a lacuna in Shepard scholarship. Most of the critical attention given to Shepard's work centers on his early productions, and the playwright's waning popularity has certainly contributed to this lack of attention. Skelton (Kansas State Univ.) examines nine works written since 1988, looking at how Shepard's later style reveals, as she writes in the introduction, a maturing of the Shepard persona and a willingness to explore different media, subjects, and aesthetics and ... to pose solutions to dilemmas previously considered yet never resolved. Skelton examines both the intertextual and the transmedial ( a mode of storytelling that transcends one medium and develops on various platforms ) qualities of these works. A key feature of the later works is the ability of characters to resolve issues and concerns raised in earlier works: as an example, Skelton compares The Late Henry Moss (2002) with True West (1980), looking at how the later work solves the issues of personal conflict left unresolved in the earlier play. Offering a range of critical approaches and exhibiting scholarly sophistication, this is an intelligent, overdue contribution to the literature on Shepard. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE * Author InformationShannon Blake Skelton teaches at Kansas State University, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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