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RADICALISMIN THE NORTH AMERICAN GRAIN\n\n# Rereading Shepard\n\nContemporary Critical Essays onthe Plays of Sam Shepard  \nEdited by  \nLeonard Wilcox  \nSenior Lecturer in EnglishUniversity of Canterbury,Christchurch,New Zealand  \nEditorial matter,selection and Chapter 3◎Leonard Wilcox 1993Macmillan Press Ltd 1993  \nSoftcover reprint of the hardcover Ist edition 1993  \nAll rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmission ofthis publication may be made without written permission.  \nNo paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copied ortransmitted save with written pernission or in accordance withthe provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988,or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copyingissued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,90 Tottenham CourtRoad,London WiP9HE.  \nAny person who does any unauthorised act in relation to thispublication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civilclaims for damages.  \nFirst published in Great Britain 1993 byMACMILLAN PRESS LTD  \nHoundmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG212XSand London  \nCompanies and representativesthroughout the world  \nISBN 978-1-349-22511-8  \nISBN 978-1-349-22509-5(eBook)  \nDOI 10.1007/978-1-349-22509-5  \nA catalogue record for this book is availablefrom the British Library.  \n1110  9  8  7  6  5  4  3030201009998979695  \nFirst published in the United States of America 1993 byScholarly and Reference Division,ST.MARTIN'S PRESS,INC.,175 Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y.10010  \nISBN 978-0-312-07479-1  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nRereading Shepard:contemporary critical essays on the plays of SamShepard/edited by Leonard Wilcox.  \np.cm.Includes index.  \nISBN 978-0-312-07479-1  \n1.Shepard,Sam,1943-—Criticism and interpretation.  \n1.Wilcox,Leonard,1943-PS3569.H394Z851993812'.54—dc20  \n92-9850  \n# To Candace and Geordan\n\nContents  \nAcknowledgements  \nNotes on the Contributors  \nIntroducion  \n1 Artifacts:The Early Plays ReconsideredGerald Weales  \n2 Potential Performance Texts for The Rock Gardenand 4-H ClubDennis Carroll  \n3 The Desert and the City:Operation Sidewinder andShepard's Postmodern AllegoryLeonard Wilcox  \n4 Memory and Mind:Sam Shepard's Geography of aHorse DreamerGerry McCarthy  \n5 Shepard's Challenge to the Modernist Mythsof Origin and Originality:Angel Cityand True WestSheila Rabillard  \n6 True Stories:Reading the Autobiographic inCowboy Mouth,'True Dylan'andBuried ChildAnn Wilson  \n7 Shepard's Family Trilogy and the Conventionsof Modern RealismCharles R.Lyons  \nix  \nX  \n1  \n8  \n224258  \n97  \nviii  \nContents  \n8 A Kind of Cavorting:Superpresence and Shepard'sFamily DramasDavid J.DeRose  \n9 Speaking Without Words:The Myth of MasculineAutonomy in Sam Shepard's Fool for LoveAnn C.Hall  \n150  \n10 When a Woman Looks:The 'Other'Audienceof Shepard's Plays168Susan Bennett  \n11 Lighting Out for the Territory Within:Field Noteson Shepard's Expressionist VisionSherrill Grace  \n180  \n12 ISmash the Tools of my Captivity':The Femininein Sam Shepard's A Lie of the MindJane Ann Crum  \n196  \n13 A Motel of the Mind:Fool For Love and A Lieof the MindFelicia Hardison Londré  \n215  \nIndex  \nThe editor and publishers are grateful to Bantam Books,a divisionof Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc.,for permission toquote from Seven Plays by Sam Shepard ◎1981 by Sam Shepard.I wish to thank Jane Gregg for reading and commenting on anumber of these essays,as well as Carole Acheson for her assistancewith the manuscript.I am particularly indebted to Rosemary RussoGrigor who gave her time generously in preparing the manuscript.  \n# Notes on the Contributors\n\nSusan Bennett is Assistant Professor in the Department of Englishat the University of Calgary with research and teaching interestsin contemporary drama and theory.Her book Theatre Audiences:ATheory of Production and Reception wa","cbCaii49TqtV07e3","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaii49TqtV07e3","pdf",23822534,241,"English","# 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