Curse of the Starving Class | Essays and Criticism
- Disease, Invasion,
and Breaching in Curse of the Starving Class
In this essay, Greg Barnhisel examines themes of disease, invasion, and breaching in Curse of the Starving Class.
- Shepard’s Family Trilogy and
the Conventions of Modern Realism
In the following essay excerpt, the author discusses Shepard’s merging of archetypal familial relationship paradigms with the realism associated with his style.
- The Father, the Son, and The
Holy Ghostly
In the following essay, the author discusses Shepard’s creation of an ‘‘intricate network’’ of elements to create a ‘‘mythic subtext’’ of forces infecting the lives of his characters.
- Sam Shepard and the Dysfunctional American
Family: Therapeutic Perspectives
In the following essay excerpt, the authors discuss a variety of common interfamilial themes in Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class.
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