Foreword
In a chapter devoted to Tennessee Williams in her study The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking, the critic Olivia Laing wrestles with the incongruity between the voice evident in Williams’s journals, which tends to be self-absorbed and even petty, and in his plays, which are defined in la...
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2026
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| Online dostop: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Izvleček: | In a chapter devoted to Tennessee Williams in her study The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking, the critic Olivia Laing wrestles with the incongruity between the voice evident in Williams’s journals, which tends to be self-absorbed and even petty, and in his plays, which are defined in large part by his generous sympathy for his characters. She concludes that a reader perusing Williams’s journals must keep in mind that “one has entered no more than a single room in what might be ca... |
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