ТРАЈНО АКТУЕЛНИ ИНТИМНИ МОДЕРНИЗАМ ТЕНЕСИЈА ВИЛИЈАМСА
THE PERPETUALLY UP-TO-DATE INTIMATE MODERNISM OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Summary/Abstract: The paper is concerned with the American playwright Tennessee Williams’ attempts to discover the alternative position of modernist heritage within the global cultural disengagement initiated my maxims of Postmodernist revolution in the second half of the XX century. First renowned as a champion of mystical implications of of trademark themes of American culture, such as violence or sex, by the middle of the century Williams faced the beginning of the age of consumeristic demands, threatening to deplete the once-hallowed tropes by trends of overexposure, repdoruction and parodying. Williams creative incentive symbollicaly started to diminish just in time the first explicit ideas of redundancy of cultural paradigms in terms of arts, as well as in politics and education, started to emerge. His trials of conforming to the demythologized system of ideologized reality would thus remain half-hearted at best. The paper aims to explore Williams’ relation towards the ’modern-postmodern’ dichotomy through the four aspects the author considers to be crucial: 1) Williams’ awareness of the constructive ethropy of history 2) Williams’ attitude towards essential role of theatre and cinema of strategically distributing and suggesting the semantic value of art. 3) Williams’ exploitation of sexuality-related themes in light of both psychoanalytical as well as popular societal aspects and 4) Williams’reluctancy to adjust his inherently ambiguous artistic orientation to the globalist necessities of the second half of the XX century.

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