Rereading Shepard: Contemporary Critical Essays on the Plays of Sam Shepard

Rereading Shepard draws together 13 original theoretical perspectives on one of America's most important contemporary playwrights. Representing a range of critical appraoches - including semiotics, deconstruction, and feminism - the essays address recent debates emerging in Shepard criticism. These include the status of Shepard's texts within the modernist tradition on the one hand and a developing post-modernism on the other, and the feminist debate over Shepard's drama - does it reinforce a masculinist world or does it provide some oppositional stance toward patriarchal 'master narratives'?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333538498
• ISBN13: 9780333538494
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"