Thornton Wilder : New Perspectives /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Eno, Will, 1965-, Konkle, Lincoln, Bryer, Jackson R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Wilder, Thornton, > (1897-1975)
Wilder, Thornton > 1897-1975
Wilder, Thornton, > 1897-1975.
Wilder, Thornton, > 1897-1975 > Criticism and interpretation.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Jackson R. Bryer and Lincoln Konkle
  • Thornton Niven Wilder: a chronology
  • Thornton Wilder for the twenty-first century / Tappan Wilder
  • The novels
  • Part of the alphabet : Wilder as novelist / J.D. McClatchy
  • Ellerslie revisited : Wilder, Wilson, and Proust / Christopher Benfey
  • Historical religious crises in Wilder's early novels / Christopher Wheatley
  • Vis comica-on-the-lake : the Chicago roots of Thornton Wilder's concept of comedy / Arvid F. Sponberg
  • Omniscience and the fixer in Wilder's novels / Scott Donaldson
  • Thornton Wilder's Midwest : Heaven's my destination and The eighth day / Nancy Bunge
  • Major plays
  • The outsider : contextualizing Simon Stimson in Our town / Kenneth Elliott
  • Wearing down "the edge of boldness" : Wilder's evolving values and stagecraft in The three published versions and prompt script of Our town / Park Bucker
  • No time like the present : Wilder's plays and Buddhist thought and time / Anne Fletcher
  • To the American clock by The skin of our teeth : Arthur Miller's debt to Thornton Wilder / Susan C W. Abbotson
  • Adaptations
  • Wilder and Ibsen : the three texts of A doll's house / David Hammond
  • Lady Bountiful's farcical turn through Middleton, Farquhar, Wilder, and Ludwig / Anne F. Widmayer
  • "The great mill-wheel" of time : Thornton Wilder and Paul Hindemith's collaboration on The long Christmas dinner opera / Janie Caves McCauley
  • Lesser-known works
  • Hitchcock and Wilder : writing and rewriting Shadow of a doubt / Max Alvarez
  • The Alcestiad : Thornton Wilder and the "incommensurability of things human and divine" / Mary C. English
  • "Carving some cherry stones" : disparities in The angel that troubled the waters and other plays / Edyta Oczkowicz
  • The view from abroad
  • The early critical reception of Thornton Wilder in Italy / Dianna Pickens
  • The Japanese reception of Our town in 1941 : pre-modernism and Thornton Wilder / Hachiya Mizutani
  • "It's been the dream of my life to see Paris" : the pleasures and challenges of translating Our town into French / Julie Vatain
  • Theophilus North and the traditions of ancient Chinese allegory / Hansong Dan
  • Afterword: man in a chair / Will Eno.

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