Blanche and Stanley, polar opposites. A pragmastylistic analysis of interactions from Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (23) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Joanna Bobin
Keyword(s):  
Tennessee Williams ◽  
Turn Taking ◽  
Streetcar Named Desire ◽  
Textual Cues ◽  
Dramatic Characters ◽  
A Streetcar Named Desire

The paper is an attempt at demonstrating how the language used by fictional dramatic characters contributes to their characterization, that is, how the readers (audiences) perceive them based on inferences drawn from a variety of textual cues. These cues include explicit selfand other-presentation as well as implicit hints retrieved from conversation structure, aspects of turn-taking or features of the language used by the character. In this paper, Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski from Tennessee Williams’ play The Streetcar Named Desire are analyzed and characterized as being polar opposites.

The Mexican Premiere of Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire"

1994 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip C. Kolin
Keyword(s):  
Tennessee Williams ◽  
Streetcar Named Desire ◽  
A Streetcar Named Desire

En diciembre de 1948 y de mayo a agosto de 1949, la obra clásica de Tennessee Williams, Un Tranvía Llamado Deseo, se presentó por primera vez en México y con ella hizo historia, tanto en el teatro mexicano como en el estadounidense. La obra fue dirigida por Seki Sano, el director japonés a quien se le atribuye la transformación del teatro mexicano, y en ella actuaron Wolf Ruvinskis, quien después siguió una destacada carrera en el cine, y María Douglas. La joven compañía de Seki Sano recibió grandes alabanzas de los críticos mexicanos por introducir y representar de una manera muy bella uno de los dramas más importantes de los Estados Unidos.

4. Salesmen, southerners, anger, and ennui

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Tennessee Williams ◽  
Theatre Of The Absurd ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Streetcar Named Desire ◽  
Waiting For Godot ◽  
A Streetcar Named Desire ◽  
The Way ◽  
Death Of A Salesman

From 1940 to 1960 some of modern drama’s most famous plays were staged: Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1949), attaining a new kind of tragedy and a particularly American brand of realism; and, in London, Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (1955) and John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger (1956), introducing, respectively, the ‘theatre of the absurd’ and a new linguistic and emotional brutality, inaugurating an era of ‘kitchen sink’ realism. ‘Salesmen, southerners, anger, and ennui’ shows how these radically different dramas expanded plays’ subject matter as well as their formal and linguistic properties; in particular, they changed forever the way language (and silence) worked on stage.

scholarly journals "The Death of Salesmen": David Mamet’s Drama, "Glengarry Glen Ross", and Three Iconic Forerunners

Ad Americam ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Robert J. Cardullo
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
English Language ◽  
Tennessee Williams ◽  
American Drama ◽  
Streetcar Named Desire ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A Streetcar Named Desire ◽  
First Time ◽  
Death Of A Salesman

This essay places Glengarry Glen Ross in the context of David Mamet’s oeuvre and the whole of American drama, as well as in the context of economic capitalism and even U.S. foreign policy. The author pays special attention here (for the first time in English-language scholarship) to the subject of salesmen or selling as depicted in Mamet’s drama and earlier in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, and Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire—each of which also features a salesman among its characters.

scholarly journals Women Language Features in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Iga Rahadiyanti
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Tennessee Williams ◽  
Color Terms ◽  
Streetcar Named Desire ◽  
Numeric Data ◽  
A Streetcar Named Desire ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The purpose of this study is to observe the types of women language features and the most frequent women language feature used by the main women characters in the dialogue of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire play. Ten women language features proposed by Robin Lakoff is used to analyze the data. This study only observes eight out of ten women language features proposed by Robin Lakoff, namely tag question, intensifier, hypercorrect grammar, hedges or fillers, empty adjectives, precise color terms, super polite form, and avoidance of strong swear words. This study excludes emphatic stress and rising intonation on declaratives feature. Due to the absence of any numeric data, this study uses descriptive qualitative approach. The data is taken from written script of the play which consists of eleven scenes. Seven women language features found namely lexical hedges or fillers, tag question, intensifier, empty adjectives, superpolite form, avoidance of strong swear words, and precise color terms. The most frequent feature is lexical hedges or fillers (59.49%) while no hypercorrect grammar is found. This study supports Lakoff theory since most of the features are found in the conversation of main women characters

Eros dirige em curvas sinuosas: masculinidade e desejo em Caio Fernando Abreu e Tennessee Williams

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 123-138
Author(s):  
Juan Filipe Stacul ◽  
Sirlei Santos Dudalski
Keyword(s):  
Tennessee Williams ◽  
Men's Studies ◽  
Men’S Studies ◽  
Streetcar Named Desire ◽  
A Streetcar Named Desire

O presente estudo pretende realizar uma leitura comparativa entre as obras A streetcar named desire, deTennessee Williams, e Onde andará Dulce Veiga?, de Caio Fernando Abreu. A tese defendida é a de que uma ligação possível entre as obras se dá a partir, basicamente, de três elementos: a crise do sujeito, o erotismo e as representações de masculinidades. Como referencial teórico, pretende-se utilizar as teorizações pós-modernas acerca de identidade cultural (Hall, Debord), men's studies (Nolasco, Badinter,Sedgwick) e erotismo (França, Chauí).

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