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Thornton Wilder and the Puritan narrative tradition
Thornton Wilder and the Puritan Narrative Tradition is the first reading of Wilder's life, fiction, drama, and criticism as a product of American culture. Konkle shows that Thornton Wilder, as a literary descendant of Edward Taylor, inherited the best of the Puritans' worldview and drew upon those attributes of the Puritan tradition within American literature that would strike a fundamental chord with his American audience. By providing close readings of Wilder's texts against seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Puritan culture and literature, Konkle demonstrates that Wilder's aesthetic was not just generically allegorical but also typically American and his religious sensibility was not just generally Christian, but specifically Calvinist.
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Stella Adler on America's master playwrights : Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee
Stella Adler's lectures on the giants of twentieth-century American theater whom she knew, loved, and worked with.
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Thornton Wilder and Amos Wilder
Thornton Wilder, the only author to have won the Pulitzer Prize
for both drama and fiction, frequently portrays characters
struggling with religious and theological issues. His work has been
examined by critics in connection with American Puritanism,
existentialism, and Vedantic literature, but little attention has
been paid to the works of Thornton's brother Amos, an ordained
minister, poet, biblical scholar, literary critic, and professor at
Harvard. Thornton Wilder and Amos Wilder: Writing Religion in
Twentieth-Century America is the first book to explore the
relationship between Thornton's work and his brother Amos's
scholarship.
Previous critics of Thornton's works have claimed that they
describe timeless human values. Christopher Wheatley, on the
contrary, argues that Wilder is primarily interested in the
historical context of ideas, the ways in which they are a product
of their time. He demonstrates how this parallels elements in
Amos's biblical scholarship. For the most part scholars have also
treated Wilder's works as if his ideas were static throughout his
career. Wheatley contends that Wilder's early works of fiction and
drama examine religion in times of historical crisis, whereas his
later works demonstrate a deep concern about the intellectual,
social, economic, and spiritual currents of contemporary America,
as well as the influences of existentialism and postwar skepticism
on his evolving religious ideas.
Drawing on extensive archival research in the papers of both
brothers, Thornton Wilder and Amos Wilder: Writing Religion in
Twentieth-Century America is essential reading for anyone
interested in the Wilders, religion and literature, or American
literature and drama.
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Thornton Wilder in Collaboration
The essays in this volume evolved from papers presented at the Second International Thornton Wilder Conference, held at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, in June 2015. They examine Wilder's work as both playwright and novelist, focusing upon how he drew on the collaborative mode of creativity required in the theatre, when writing both drama and fiction. The book's authors use the term \"collaboration\" in its broadest sense, at times in response to Wilder's critics who faulted him for \"borrowing\" from other, earlier, literary works rather than recognizing these \"borrowings\" as central to the artistic process of collaboration. In exploring Wilder's collaborative efforts of different kinds, the essays not only consider how Wilder worked with and revised earlier literary texts and the ideas central to those texts, but also analyze how Wilder worked with and inspired other creative individuals and how recent productions of Wilder's plays, both in the US and abroad, have been the products of unique forms of collaboration.
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El lustro dorado de los intercambios entre intelectuales estadounidenses y ecuatorianos: 1940-1945
En el contexto de la Política del Buen Vecino elaborada por Franklin D. Roosevelt y del acercamiento impulsado por varias instituciones estadounidenses al comienzo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, los años cuarenta son un momento de intensos intercambios entre intelectuales norteamericanos y ecuatorianos, un paréntesis fructífero después de los posicionamientos antiimperialistas de las décadas anteriores, y antes de los enfrentamientos ideológicos y políticos de la Guerra Fría. El autor estudia este momento privilegiado a través de los intercambios entre cuatro intelectuales estadounidenses, Albert B. Franklin, Thornton Wilder, Willis Knapp Jones y John Dos Passos, y tres miembros del Grupo de Guayaquil: Demetrio Aguilera Malta, Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco y Enrique Gil Gilbert, basándonos en cartas y documentos inéditos, y haciendo hincapié en el concurso literario de la Unión Panamericana (1941).
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Witnessing the Trauma of \Our Town\
According to Plato, what appears discernibly in performance (whether on the stage or in \"real life\") is always a betraying, hollow show-a kind of tragic farce.From the beginning of the speech to the end, \"something\" is used as a conspicuous marker for both the eternal being of humans and that universal force which directs their being; it is both effect and cause; both endless system and the strange attractor whose logic it obeys.[...]in a mystifying sleight-of-hand, the speech actualizes a miraculous horizon of the universal eternal, wherein all its conflicts and confusion are resolved, and where all potential disturbances and differences miraculously dissolve while retaining their singular identity.[...]the Stage Manager frequently speaks in the first-person plural, and he relies on this subject position to buttress his claims: \" There are some things we all know, but we don't take'm out and look atm..\"; \"We all know...\"; \"All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that.\"; \"You know as well as I do.\" (emphasis mine).According to the Stage Manager's implicit worldview, if human beings perceive themselves and those they love as being cut off from the universally eternal-for example, if they mourn for their dead, lost loved ones-it is only because they have fallen prey to an inexplicable, fatal misconception of finitude.
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Our Town at Sunnyvale
The Winter 2023-24 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares \"the Triton among minnows.\" The Winter 2023-24 Issue, edited by Ladette Randolph, features poetry and prose by Richard Bausch, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Ian Stansel, Ariana Benson, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Marie Howe, and more.
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The Single-Author Society and Its Discontents: The Ibsen Society of America Dissolves and Ceases Publication of Its Journal
On December 11, 2023, after two years of consultation with its members, the leadership of the Ibsen Society of America announced it would close down operations as an organization and cease publication of its superb online journal Ibsen News and Comment (INC) in 2024. According to Jackson R. Bryer, current President of the Thornton Wilder Society and one of the editors of the Thorton Wilder Journal: Our two biggest (and related) problems as we look to the future of the Society and the Journal are recruiting new, young members for the Society and receiving submissions for the Journal. Doggetts comment on academias declining interest in single-author courses in general coincides with my own sense that such decline is due in part to nearly three decades of challenges to traditional literary canons and established \"Major Authors\" reading lists. The Eugene O'Neill Society (EONS) views the closing of the ISA as an \"alarming\" and \"sad moment\" for not just single-author societies, but also \"the humanities based academic world,\" particularly in the United States: We look upon the current landscape of pedagogy and scholarly research at the high school, undergraduate, and graduate levels with a concerned gaze. . . .
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