BLANCHE DUBOIS TRAPPED IN A PANOPTICON
Keywords:
Blanche DuBois, reason, madness, Tennessee WilliamsAbstract
This work is directed towards the different ways of seeing things, while it aims not at explaining, but at understanding the character of Blanche DuBois and her mental struggles seen and anticipated in Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire.
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Berger, John, Ways of Seeing, available on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnfB-pUm3eI
DiGaetani, John Louis, Stages of Struggle, Modern Playwrights and Their Psychological Inspirations, McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2008
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Berger, John, Ways of Seeing, available on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnfB-pUm3eI
DiGaetani, John Louis, Stages of Struggle, Modern Playwrights and Their Psychological Inspirations, McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2008
Feder, Lilian, Madness in Literature, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1980
Flaubert, Gustav, Memoirs of a Madman, translated by Andrew Brown, foreword by Germaine Greer, London, Hesperus, 2002
Foucault, Michel, Madness and Civilization, A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, translated from French by Richard Howard, Pantheon Books, New York, a division of Random House, 1965
Kailo, Kaarina, Blanche DuBois and Salomé as New Women, Old Lunatics in Modern Drama, in Madness in Drama, Cambridge University Press, 1993
O’Connor, Jacqueline, Dramatizing Dementia: Madness in the Plays of Tennessee Williams, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1997
Selznick, Irene Mayer, A Private View, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983
Shakespeare, William, Hamlet in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Geddes & Grosset, David Dale House, New Lanark, Scotland, 2002
The Influence of Tennessee Williams, Essays on Fifteen American Playwrights, edited and with an introduction by Philip C. Kolin, McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2008
The Twentieth Century Interpretations of A Streetcar Named Desire, A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Jordan Y. Miller, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N. J., 1971
Williams, Tennessee, A Streetcar Named Desire, Introduction and questions by Ray Speakman, Heinemann Plays, England, 1995.
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12-25-2009
How to Cite
Влашковић, Б. Р. (2009). BLANCHE DUBOIS TRAPPED IN A PANOPTICON. Nasleđe, 6(14/2), 133–140. Retrieved from http://www.nasledje.kg.ac.rs/index.php/nasledje/article/view/236
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THE SUBJECT/OBJECT OF MADNESS
