Tennessee Williams: A Qualitative Study

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This study will be qualitative in nature in nature. It will tend towards diversification so it may not be based on a unified theoretical and methodological concept. Various theoretical approaches and their methods will be utilized for analyzing empirical material and related areas. It will try to answer micro sociological questions raised in the plays of Tennessee Williams. The primary sources (text of Tennessee Williams plays, his Memoris and literary essays). Findings are based on the data taken from these text. The social reality will be constructed through their reading and interpretations. Hypothesis will be developed by studying them and afterwards will be tested by quantitative approaches. Existing literature on Williams (secondary sources

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