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The Sea in Literature: Johan Callens

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Sam Shepard
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SOURCE: "Memories of The Sea in Shepard's Illinois," in Modern Drama, Vol. XXIX, No. 3, September, 1986, pp. 403-15.

In the following essay, Callens assesses the underlying "mythic-symbolic dimension" of Sam Shepard's drama Buried Child, focusing on the complex and ambivalent water symbolism in the play.

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