Titlebook: Rereading Shepard; Contemporary Critica Leonard Wilcox (Senior Lecturer in English) Book 1993 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan P

指耕作

Artifacts: The Early Plays Reconsidered,).. In the Prologue to . (1971), in which Kosmo and Yahoodi introduce themselves (even more than Slim and Shadow in . or the brothers in ., they seem to be a split portrait of Sam Shepard), Kosmo says, ‘intuitive decisions based on a leaking-roof brain. Lots of dashing images’.. When Hoss in . (1972

Foregery

盘旋

,The Desert and the City: , and Shepard’s Postmodern Allegory,’s screenplay for ., and Wim Wenders’s cinematography use the desert and the city as pivotal images around which the narrative action revolves. Travis, initially seen wandering the landscape of the desert like some burned-out Natty Bumpo traversing the barren frontier, is later taken by his brother

反感

Occupation

,Shepard’s Challenge to the Modernist Myths of Origin and Originality: , and ,ge. The mother of Austin and Lee has just returned unexpectedly from her vacation trip to Alaska because, she says, she started missing all her plants. She discovers her kitchen a shambles and mysteriously full of toasters. Her son, Austin, who was supposedly minding the house while he wrote a scree

Exclaim

WAG

absolve

,Speaking Without Words: the Myth of Masculine Autonomy in Sam Shepard’s ,orced critics to resort to non-dramatic terminology in order to analyze his style, but they have also made him and his works, in Don Shewey’s words, a ‘true American original’.. For many critics, however, Shepard’s heterodoxy does not extend to his female characters; his characterisation of women is

homocysteine

Outshine

,Lighting Out for the Territory Within: Field Notes on Shepard’s Expressionist Vision,violent and always ambiguous, and critics have generally agreed that it is as difficult to say exactly what he means as it is to classify how he writes. One response to this dilemma is to give it up — after all, Shepard’s is not a theatre of ideas but of feelings. Another response is merely to celeb