Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations

Tennessee Williams's

A Streetcar Named DesireNew Edition

Edited and with an introduction by

Harold BloomSterling Professor of the Humanities

Yale University

i BLOOM'SLITERARY CRITICISMAn imprint of Infobase Publishing

Contents

Editor's Note vii

Introduction 1Harold Bloom

The Hetairas (Maggie, Myrtle, Blanche) 7Gulshan Rat Kataria

There Are Lives that Desire DoesNot Sustain: A Streetcar Named Desire 35Calvin Bedient

Domestic Violence in A Streetcar Named Desire 49Susan Koprince

Blanche DuBois and the Kindness of Endings 61George Toles

"It's Only a Paper Moon": The Paper Ontologiesin Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire 83Philip C. Kolin

Misrepresentation and Miscegenation:Reading the •Racialized Discourseof Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire 99George W. Crandell

Scene 11 of A Streetcar Named Desire 111Bert Cardullo

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Wagnerian Architectonics: The PlasticLanguage of Tennessee Williams'sA Streetcar Named Desire 117John S. Bak

Darkness Made Visible: Miscegenation,Masquerade and the SignifiedRacial Other in Tennessee Williams'Baby Doll and A Streetcar Named Desire 133Rachel Van Duyvenbode

A Room Which Isn't Empty:A Streetcar Named Desireand the Question of Homophobia 145Michael Paller

Chronology

Contributors

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

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