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Katherine Weiss

Selected Works

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Full-Text Articles in American Literature

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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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