SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, Vol. 1
- Publish Date: 10/1/1990
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- Page Count: 264 pages
- Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-00280-4
Now in book format, Shaw (continuing The Shaw Review) will publish general articles on Shaw and his milieu, reviews, notes and the authoritative Continuing Checklist of Shaviana—the bibliography of Shaw studies. Because of its book size, Shaw will offer approximately twice as many pages as the present three-issue format combined; it therefore will be possible to utilize more illustrative material than before, and more detailed studies.
For libraries and individual readers who bind their issues, the expense of binding will now be eliminated, and the studies published will be less susceptible to loss and mutilation than in the paper-cover form. Some annual volumes will be special-theme books, although such service departments as the annual Checklist and a book review section will be continued in them. Two-year subscribers in the U.S. and Canada are guaranteed the Volume 1 price of $15.95 for Volume 2 (1982), $17.50 in all other countries.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
SHAYDULLAH SEES SHAW 3
R. F. Bosworth
1. IN THE BEGINNING: THE POETIC GENESIS OF SHAW'S
GOD 5
Charles A. Bent
2. TOWARD RELIGION IN THE PLAYS
SHAW AND RA: RELIGION AND SOME HISTORY PLAYS 45
J. L. Wisenthal
3. LADY CICELY, I PRESUME: CONVERTING THE
HEATHEN, SHAVIAN STYLE 57
Ina Rae Hark
4. SHAW AS PROPHET
"SOME NECESSARY REPAIRS TO RELIGION":
RESURRECTING AN EARLY SHAVIAN "SERMON" 77
Charles A. Bent
5. SUPERMAN AND JEW: MR. BERNARD SHAW AND HERR
BRAININ—A NOTABLE CONVERSATION 99
Israel Cohen
6. PERSPECTIVES ON THE RELIGIOUS PLAYWRIGHT
THE LORD'S PRAYER AND MAJOR BARBARA 107
Sidney P. Albert
7. SHAW'S THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET AND
TOLSTOY'S THE POWER OF DARKNESS: DRAMATIC
KINSHIP AND THEOLOGICAL OPPOSITION 129
David Matual
8. BACK TO METHUSELAH: A BLAKEAN INTERPRETATION 141
Valli Rao
9. TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD AND SHAW'S ROMANTIC
SYNTHESIS: A RELIGION FOR OUR TIMES 183
Daniel Leary
10. THE ADVENTURES OF SHAW, THE NUN, AND THE
BLACK GIRL 205
Warren Sylvester Smith
BIBLIOGRAPHY
SHAW AND RELIGION/PHILOSOPHY: A WORKING
BIBLIOGRAPHY 225
Charles A. Carpenter
REVIEWS AND CHECKLIST
REVIEWS
SHAW'S WOMEN 249
Tony Stephenson
MONEY AND POLITICS 251
Calvin G. Rand
A CONTINUING CHECKLIST OF SHAVIANA 255
John R. Pfeiffer
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