The Hollowness of American Myths in Sam Shepard´s "Buried Child"

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Tubingen (Englisches Seminar), course: PS II Literary Studies: Family Scenes: The American Family on Stage, language: English, abstract: “This study holds that the coherence of the [American] nation owes much to the potency of its communal ‘stories’, those myths given prominence in cultural con...