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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Konkle, Lincoln
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.