Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Bryer, Jackson R.
2. Konkle, Lincoln.
3. Eno, Will, 1965-

Description

1. xxi, 488 pages; 24 cm

Subject

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

Contents

1. 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

1. JFE 14-1412

Note

1. "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)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Conference

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

Title

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

Publisher

1. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2013.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Added author

1. Bryer, Jackson R.
2. Konkle, Lincoln.
3. Eno, Will, 1965-

LCCN

1. 2012051396

ISBN

1. 9780810129214 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0810129213 (cloth : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 14-1412