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Title New readings : Shaw at the sesquicentennial / edited by MaryAnn K. Crawford and Heidi J. Holder.

Imprint University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2006.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  822.912 Sh26Ds  v.26    ---  Available
Description vii, 284 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Shaw. The annual review of Bernard Shaw studies, 0741-5842 ; v. 26
Shaw ; v. 26.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction: reading and re-reading: Shaw post-150 years / Heidi J. Holder and MaryAnn K. Crawford -- Bearing witness: Heartbreak House and the poetics of trauma / Desmond Harding -- The talking cure / Jean Reynolds -- Pre-Oedipal Shaw: "It's always the mother" / Lagretta Tallent Lenker -- What runs (in) the family: iterated retelling, gender and genre in You Never Can Tell and Major Barbara / Dorothy A. Hadfield -- The ungendered will and the Shavian superman / Monica A. Zabrouski and Robert P. Kirschmann -- Doing proper things for improper reasons: spiritual ambivalence in Major Barbara / Frank Manista -- Late capitalism and the United States in The Apple Cart / C. Brook Miller -- Shaw's epic theater / Lisa A. Wilde -- Shaw reinterpreted / Nicholas Williams -- Shaw's everyday emergency: commodification and John Bull's Other Island / Brand Kent -- Colonialism, postcolonialism, and the shadow of a new empire: John Bull's Other Island / Kathleen Ochshorn -- Colonial locations of contested space and John Bull's Other Island / Peter Gahan -- Reviews.
Subject Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Added Author Crawford, MaryAnn Krajnik.
Holder, Heidi J.
ISSN 0741-5842
ISBN 0271029684

 
    
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