Beth Henley : a casebook / edited by Julia A. Fesmire.

SeriesCasebooks on modern dramatists
Casebooks on modern dramatists. ^A503980
Contents Introduction / Julia A. Fesmire -- "Dancing on the edge of a cliff" : images of the grotesque in the plays of Beth Henley / Miriam M. Chirico -- Lessons from the past : loss and redemption in the early plays of Beth Henley / Larry G. Mapp -- Moving beyond Mississippi : Beth Henley and the anxieties of postsouthernness / Gary Richards -- Lucky spot as immanent critique / Rebecca King -- Abundance or excess? : Beth Henley's postmodern romance of the true West / Karen L. Laughlin -- Existential despair and the modern neurosis : Beth Henley's Crimes of the heart / Gene A. Plunka -- Southern firecrackers and "real bad days" : film adaptations of Beth Henley's Crimes of the heart and the Miss Firecracker contest / Linda Rohrer Paige.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 154-167) and index.
LCCN 2002007399
ISBN0815338783