The limits of realism in The Mutilated, by Tennessee Williams: expressionism and verfremdungseffekt

• Autor(a) principal: Ponciano, Gustavo
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Ilha do Desterro
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/2175-8026.2017v70n1p275

This paper starts the research reading the hesitations of literary and theatrical criticism in its proposition to classify Tennessee Williams’s (1911-1983) dramatic writing, specially the critics that try to restrict the foregoing playwright works under the term “Realism”. Adverse to this criticism, the production notes from The Glass Menagerie (1944) – Williams’s Plastic Theatre manifesto – reveals the author intentions to get rid of orthodox Realism theatre conventions in his plays. Finally, the study points in Williams’s The Mutilated (1967) some remarkable qualities – expressionist techniques and uses of brechtian Verfremdungseffekt – that allude to a distinct conception of Realism.