Oxford Literature Companions: A Streetcar Named Desire
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Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role, genre, context, language, themes, structure, performance and critical views, whilst also providing a range of varied and in-depth activities to deepen understanding and encourage close work wtih the text. Each book
also includes a comprehensive Skills and Practice section, which provides detailed advice on assessment and a bank of exam-style questions and annotated sample student answers. This guide covers A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams.
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Plot and Structure
- Plot
- Structure
- Context
- Biography of Tennessee Williams
- Biographical influences on A Streetcar Named Desire
- Second World War
- Gender roles
- Social class and ethnic identity
- The South
- Cultural context
- Genre
- Tragedy
- Comedy
- Tragi-comedy
- Realism and expressionism
- Characterization and Roles
- Main characters
- Minor characters
- Language
- Epigraph
- Stage directions
- Dialogue
- Imagery
- Allusions
- Hyperbole
- Symbolism
- Irony
- Themes
- Social class
- Masculinity and femininity
- Love, sex and marriage
- Reality versus illusion
- Madness
- Death
- Shame and humiliation
- Performance
- First performance
- Film
- Revivals
- Alternative readings
- Critical Views
- Feminist criticism
- Gender criticism and queer theory
- Structuralism
- Political or Marxist criticism
- Reader response criticism
- Psychological literary criticism
- Skills and Practice
- Exam skills
- Understanding the question
- Planning your answer
- Writing your answer
- Developing an academic writing style
- Sample questions
- Sample answers
- Glossary
- Back Cover
