{"id":21101,"date":"2011-02-25T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=21101"},"modified":"2011-02-25T00:00:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T05:00:15","slug":"tennessee-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/02\/25\/tennessee-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o_lToyPAUyE\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o_lToyPAUyE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Blanche meets Stanley in <\/em>A Streetcar Named Desire<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tennessee_Williams\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee Williams<\/a> died on this date in 1983 (born 1911).<\/p>\n<p>Frye in <em>The Educated Imagination<\/em> cites Williams in his account of recurring archetypes in popular literature:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You notice that popular literature, the kind of stories that are read for relaxation, is always very highly conventionalized. \u00a0If you pick up a detective story, you may not know until the last page who done it, but you always know before you start reading exactly the kind of thing that&#8217;s going to happen. \u00a0If you read the fiction in women&#8217;s magazines, you read the story of Cinderella over and over again. \u00a0If you read Westerns, you&#8217;re reading a development of the pastoral convention, which turns up in writers of all ages, including Shakespeare. \u00a0It&#8217;s the same with characterization. \u00a0The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams. 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