Tony Kushner / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical views

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kushner, Tony--Criticism and interpretation.

Kushner, Tony.

Kushner, Tony. Angels in America.

AIDS (Disease) in literature.

Gay men in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii, 197 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, [2005]

Summary:

- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world--from the English medievalists to contemporary writers- Introductory essay by Harold Bloom

Contents:

Communism is dead: long live the king! / Mark Steyn

Ambivalence, utopia, and a queer sort of materialism: how Angels in America reconstructs the nation / David Savran

Angels in America: Tony Kushner's theses on the philosophy of history / Charles McNulty

Notes on Angels in America as American epic theater / Janelle Reinelt

Alla, Angli, and Angels in America / Allen J. Frantzen

Angels, monsters, and Jews: intersections of Queer and Jewish identity in Kushner's Angels in America / Jonathan Freedman

Angels in America as medieval mystery / Benilde Montgomery

The progress of death in the land of pure delight: Hydriotaphia, or The death of Dr. Browne / James Fisher

A prophet in his time: premonition and reality in Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul / James Reston Jr.

Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul: staging history in a post-colonial world / Framji Minwalla.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-186) and index.

ISBN:

0791081397

OCLC:

57669798