Thornton Wilder and the Puritan narrative tradition /
"Fresh examination of the works of Thornton Wilder emphasizing continuities in American literature from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. Sees Wilder as a literary descendant of Edward Taylor who drew from the Puritan worldview and tradition. Includes indepth readings of Shadow of a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
©2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The first city : the continuity of Puritanism in American culture and literature from Taylor to Wilder
- Judgment day in the jazz age : eschatology and providence in Wilder's early plays and novels
- The Puritan's progress : typology and plain style in Wilder's 1930s drama and fiction
- Dramatic jeremiads : Wilder's revival of the Puritan rhetoric of crisis
- Cold war wilderness : the dark night of Wilder's Puritan soul
- Covenant reborn : Wilder's reaffirmation of the American errand
- Passing the torch : Thornton Wilder and his influence on American drama.