Short Story Criticism | Williams, Tennessee - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Kolin, Philip C. “‘No Masterpiece Has Been Overlooked’: The Early Reception and Significance of Tennessee Williams's ‘Big Black: A Mississippi Idyll.’” ANQ 8, no. 4 (fall 1995): 27-34.

Surveys the early history of “Big Black: A Mississippi Idyll” to illuminate “the literary world in which Williams found himself from 1929 through 1932.”

Southern Quarterly 38, no 1 (fall 1999).

Issue devoted to Williams; includes several essays on his short fiction.

Tischler, Nancy M. “Romantic Textures in Tennessee Williams's Plays and Short Stories.” In The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams, edited by Matthew C. Roudané, pp. 147-66. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Explores the influence of the Romantic writers on Williams's plays and short fiction.

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