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‘…Long Before The Stars Were Torn Down...: The Music Of Bob Dylan And Sam Shepard, Katherine Weiss May 2018

‘…Long Before The Stars Were Torn Down...: The Music Of Bob Dylan And Sam Shepard, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

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Sophie Treadwell's Machinal: Electrifying The Female Body, Katherine Weiss May 2018

Sophie Treadwell's Machinal: Electrifying The Female Body, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Excerpt: The American playwright and journalist Sophie Treadwell dedicated her literary career to exploring the lives and motives of lonely and trapped individuals.


Book Review Of Emma Creedon, Sam Shepard And The Aesthetics Of Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Katherine Weiss May 2018

Book Review Of Emma Creedon, Sam Shepard And The Aesthetics Of Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Review of Emma Creedon, Sam Shepard and the Aesthetics of Performance Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, xi + 199 pp., $90.00.


Book Review Of New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition In American Political Theater By Ilka Saal, Katherine Weiss May 2018

Book Review Of New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition In American Political Theater By Ilka Saal, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Review of New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition in American Political Theater by Ilka Saal. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007. 244 pp. $69.95.


"... Long Before The Stars Were Torn Down...": Sam Shepard And Bob Dylan's "Brownsville Girl", Katherine Weiss May 2018

"... Long Before The Stars Were Torn Down...": Sam Shepard And Bob Dylan's "Brownsville Girl", Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Excerpt: In 1975, Bob Dylan invited Sam Shepard, the young playwright who had ignited the Off-Broadway and London theatre scene, to go on tour with him in order to write scenes and dialogue for a film of the Rolling Thunder Revue.


Cultural Memory And War Trauma In Sam Shepard’S A Lie Of The Mind, States Of Shock And The Late Henry Moss, Katherine Weiss Dec 2004

Cultural Memory And War Trauma In Sam Shepard’S A Lie Of The Mind, States Of Shock And The Late Henry Moss, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Excerpt: Beginning in the seventies with Curse of the Starving Class, the subject of the family and in particular its dysfunctional, violent male members have dominated Sam Shepard's imagination. 


Trapped By Fairies Gnomes And Elves: E.E. Cummings And The Struggle To Be Unique, Katherine Weiss Dec 1997

Trapped By Fairies Gnomes And Elves: E.E. Cummings And The Struggle To Be Unique, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Excerpt: My paper will examine how this prose-poem reveals cummings's understanding of the Modernists' struggle.