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Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi, in 1911.
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The name given to him at
birth was Thomas Lanier Williams III. He did not acquire the nickname Tennessee until
college, when classmates began calling him that in honor of his Southern accent and his
father’s home state. The Williams family had produced several illustrious politicians in the
state of Tennessee, but Williams’s grandfather had squandered the family fortune. Williams’s
father, C.C. Williams, was a traveling salesman and a heavy drinker. Williams’s mother,
Edwina, was a Mississippi clergyman’s daughter
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33 Tennessee Williams: A Trolley Named Desire
Mr. Arif Ahammed
ABOUT THE MODULE:
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ABOUT Representation AUTHOR:
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Orpheus Introspecting: Tennessee Williams and Jean Cocteau
Jean Kontaxopoulos
To “Grand”
All life, all beauty results from being broken down
— Jean Cocteau, “Letter to Mary Hoeck” (190)
For you are not stars, sky-set in the shape of a lyre,
but the dust of those who have been dismembered by Furies!
—Tennessee Williams, In the Winter of Cities (28)
According to the teachings of methodology in social sciences, the acquisition of one kind of knowledge springs from the dialectical relationship between new information (stimulus) and the total of already existing knowledge; the incorporation, that is, of new knowledge results from the intellectual clash of the new with the old. The comparative method is for social sciences (and particularly for law and literature) exactly what the empirical method is for natural sciences—that is, a scientific process for the discovery of new knowledge or the verification of that already existing. The comparative knowledge of similarities and differences between two subject-matters is wider than the mere gathering of isolated items of knowledge about them (Owen Aldridge 1). The comparative approach to Tennessee Williams and Jean Cocteau aims exactly at not only this “new knowledge” of