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Title:

Critical essays on George Bernard Shaw / edited by Elsie B. Adams.

Publisher:

Maxwell Macmillan International,
Maxwell Macmillan Canada ;
Maxwell Macmillan International,

Copyright Date:

c1991

Description:

ix, 202 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Shaw, Bernard,--1856-1950--Criticism and interpretation.

Other Authors:

Adams, Elsie Bonita, 1932-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

By way of introduction / H.L. Mencken -- [Shaw the philosopher] / G.K. Chesterton -- [The themes of Bernard Shaw] / Edmund Wilson -- Masks and characters / Erich Strauss -- The theory and practice of Shavian drama / Eric Russell Bentley -- The novels of Bernard Shaw / Claude T. Bissell -- Concerning the play of ideas / Terence Rattigan -- The play of ideas / Sean O'Casey -- Debate and comedy / Alick West -- Technique, symbol, and theme in Heartbreak house / Frederick P.W. McDowell -- Adam and Eve : evolving archetypes in Back to Methuselah / Daniel J. Leary and Richard Foster -- The avant-garde Shaw : Too true to be good and its predecessors / Stanley Weintraub -- Shaw's superman : a re-examination / Carl H. Mills -- The new woman and the new comedy / Barbara Bellow Watson -- Having the last word : plot and counterplot in Bernard Shaw / J.L. Wisenthal -- Deconstruction as devil's advocacy : a Shavian alternative / Richard F. Dietrich.

Series:

Critical essays on British literature

ISBN:

9780816188581 (alk. paper)
0816188580 (alk. paper)
9780816173037 (alk. paper)
0816173036 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)23584246

LCCN:

91013072

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)