TY - JOUR ID - TI - Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class and Buired Child: Reverberations of the Decadent American Morals AU - Maamoon Sami Salih PY - 2012 VL - 1 IS - 13 SP - 358 EP - 373 JO - Journal Human Sciences مجلة العلوم الانسانية SN - 19922876 25239899 AB - The literary production of Sam Shepard demonstrates some atypical intricacy. His career as a dramtist reflects an ample development on the thematic as well as the technical levels; a mounting dramatic maturity that Shepard himself concede. In an interview published in 1974 Shepard announced that "he was now trying for less flash and fewer mythic figures."¹ Although he had thought that the character is a “corny idea,” he was now becoming interested in it “on a big scale.” This progress is reflected in the reaction to Shepard's works which is in itself problematic:

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