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SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, Vol. 23

Edited by Gale Larson, and MaryAnn K. Crawford
  • Publish Date: 10/14/2003
  • Dimensions: 6 x 9
  • Page Count: 224 pages
  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-02331-1

Shaw, now in its twenty-third year, publishes general articles on Shaw and his milieu, reviews, notes, and the authoritative Continuing Checklist of Shaviana, the bibliography of Shaw studies.

Gale K. Larson is Professor of English at California State University, Northridge.MaryAnn K. Crawford is Assistant Professor of English at Central Michigan University.

CONTENTS

NOTICES

1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION: SHAW’S BRAVE NEW WORLD CONFERENCE, MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, 19–21 APRIL 2001

Gale K. Larson

2. BACK TO METHUSELAH: A "GRAND PRECURSER" [SIC] TO FINNEGANS WAKE

Martha Black

3. HOSTAGES OF HEARTBREAK: THE WOMEN IN HEARTBREAK HOUSE

Valerie Murrenus

4. THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF SHAW’S LATER PLAYS, 1929–1939

Peter Gahan

5. UTOPIAN APOCALYPSES: SHAW, WAR, AND H. G. WELLS

Christopher Innes

6. COLOSSAL GENIUS: THE CHESTERTON–SHAW DEBATES

Daniel H. Strait

7. IS THE HOLY GHOST A SCIENTIFIC FACT? WHY SHAW’S CREATIVE EVOLUTION MIGHT BECOME THE SCIENTIFIC RELIGION OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Stuart Baker

8. ALL ABOUT EVE: TESTING THE MILTONIC FORMULA

Rhoda Nathan

9. G.B.S. AND THE BBC: IN THE BEGINNING (1923–1928)

Leonard Conolly

10. "THE GULF OF DISLIKE": TRUTH AND THE POSTMODERN CONDITION IN SHAW’S "THE BLACK GIRL IN SEARCH OF GOD"

Frank C. Manista

11. OUTWITTING DESTINY: THE ARTIST AS SUPERMAN

Sally Peters

12. THE PLAYWRIGHT AND THE PRIZEFIGHTER: THE REMARKABLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BERNARD SHAW AND GENE TUNNEY

Jay Tunney

13. A FABIAN SOCIALIST IN SOCIALIST CHINA

Wendi Chen

14. G.B.S. IN HELLAS: A RESOURCE FOR CLASSICISTS

Sidney P. Albert

A CONTINUING CHECKLIST OF SHAVIANA

John R. Pfeiffer

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