An edition of Thornton Wilder (2013)

Thornton Wilder

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An edition of Thornton Wilder (2013)

Thornton Wilder

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Thornton Wilder: new perspectives
2013, Northwestern University Press
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

"All but one of these essays began as papers presented at the 2008 International Wilder Conference and have since been expanded and revised better to support their claims"--Page xv.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Evanston, Ill

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
812.52
Library of Congress
PS3545.I345 Z697 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 488 pages
Number of pages
488

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL44649046M
ISBN 10
0810129213
ISBN 13
9780810129214
LCCN
2012051396
OCLC/WorldCat
823387522

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