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Tennessee Williams attaches great emphasis to the poetic quality of his drama and contributes to the development of the dramatic form, poetic realism, by injecting the elements and spirit of poetry into every aspect of his dramaturgy. The thesis intends to analyze the characteristics and the achievements of the dramatic form of Williams’ “poetic realism” in A Streetcar Named Desire in ...
A strong dose of social realism pervades the central character of Stanley Kowalski—a blue-collar laborer, the son of Polish immigrants, “about twenty-eight or thirty years old,” according to the stage directions (Williams, p. 1199). Streetcar presents Stanley as an arrogant, aggressive, greedy, domineering, ruthless, cruel, and over-sexed ...
Tennessee Williams’s style is often referred to as poetic realism or poetic expressionism. Expressionism is a part of the modernist movement in art and literature, where the expression of emotion or emotional experience takes precedence over the materialistic depiction of physical reality.
Jan 18, 2022 · Thomas Lanier “Tennessee” Williams III (b. 1911–d. 1983) was a poet, fiction writer, and playwright. Born in Columbus, Mississippi, Williams was raised in his grandfather’s Episcopalian rectory in Clarksdale, where he lived with his mother Edwina, sister Rose, and beloved maternal grandparents. Because his father, Cornelius, a traveling ...
Tennessee Williams’s style is often referred to as poetic realism or poetic expressionism. Expressionism is a part of the modernist movement in art and literature, where the expression of emotion or emotional experience takes precedence over the materialistic depiction of physical reality.
playwrights to move thus beyond realism toward a new poetry of the theater, but today its chief figure is Tennessee Williams. While T.S. Eliot thought that the poetic drama should be written in verse, his concept regarding the effect dramatic verse should produce coincided with how Williams used language in his plays.
what Williams depicts in his characters. While doing so, I try to probe into unwritten parts in the text, or hidden parts on the stage. For I believe this is the realism that he experiments in his fictive world and makes it happen in the imagination of the audi-ence. A Reading of A Streetcar Named Desire: Tennessee Williams’s Realism Through ...
