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The Novel Project: A Streetcar Named Desire

This assignment is for AP Literature and Composition.

American Playwright Tennessee Williams

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911-1983). - American Playwright. Photographed 1945.. Fine Art. Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest. Web. 19 Feb 2012.

Web Resources

Tennessee At 100: Forever 'The Poet Of The Outcast'
NPR Listen or read
The Tennessee Williams Annual Review

Suggested Themes to Search

Illusion and reality

Loneliness

Passon, sex and death

Madness

Desire and fate

Death

Tip: Think about the imagery, symbolism, or allegory in Streetcar.

Books

Yours ever : people and their letters by Thomas Mallon
Call Number: 808.86 MAL
ISBN: 0679444262
Publication Date: 2009
Women in literature : reading through the lens of gender by Jerilyn Fisher and Ellen S. Silber
Call Number: 809 WOM
ISBN: 0313313466
Publication Date: 2003
Critical essays on Tennessee Williams by Robert A. Martin
Call Number: 812 CRI
ISBN: 0783800428
Publication Date: 1997
Tennessee Williams's A streetcar named desire by Harold Bloom
Call Number: 812 TEN
ISBN: 1604133899
Publication Date: 2009
A streetcar named Desire : a play in three acts by Tennessee Williams
Call Number: 812 WIL
ISBN: 0822210894
Publication Date: 1981, 1947
The spoken word : [sound recording]. American writers by British Library
Call Number: CD 810.9 SPO
ISBN: 9780712305440
Publication Date: 2008
Great American writers : twentieth century by R. Baird Shuman
Call Number: R 810.9 GRE v. 13
ISBN: 0761472401
Publication Date: 2002
Critical companion to Tennessee Williams by Greta Heintzelman, Alycia Smith Howard
Call Number: R 812 HEI
ISBN: 0816048886
Publication Date: 2005
The Facts on File companion to the American novel Volume III, P-Z by Abby H.P. Werlock
Call Number: R 813 FAC
ISBN: 0816045283
Publication Date: 2006