Research Catalog

Title

Thornton Wilder : new perspectives / edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Lincoln Konkle ; afterword by Will Eno.

Author

International Thornton Wilder Conference (1st : 2008 : Ewing, N.J.)

Publication

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Bryer, Jackson R.
• Konkle, Lincoln.
• Eno, Will, 1965-

Description

xxi, 488 pages; 24 cm

Subject

Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses

Note

• "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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Call Number

JFE 14-1412

ISBN

• 9780810129214 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0810129213 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2012051396

OCLC

823387522

Conference

International Thornton Wilder Conference (1st : 2008 : Ewing, N.J.)

Title

Thornton Wilder : new perspectives / edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Lincoln Konkle ; afterword by Will Eno.

Publisher

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Bryer, Jackson R.

Konkle, Lincoln.

Eno, Will, 1965-

Research Call Number

JFE 14-1412