Title: Critical essays on Thornton Wilder /
Authors: Blank, Martin
Publisher: G.K. Hall ; Prentice Hall International,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Wilder, Thornton, Criticism and interpretation.
Abstract: Collection of early reviews and modern scholarship on Thornton Wilder, including three essays published here for the first time.
Contents: Thornton Wilder : the influence of Proust / Edmund Wilson -- The man who abolished time / Malcolm Cowley -- Thornton Wilder : the notation of the heart / Edmund Fuller -- Wilder and Cervantes : in the spirit of the tapestry / Louis C. Pérez -- Theophilus North / Granville Hicks -- Three allegorists : Brecht, Wilder, and Eliot / Francis Fergusson -- Thornton Wilder says "yes" / Barnard Hewitt -- Thornton Wilder and the tragic sense of life / Robert W. Corrigan -- Thornton Wilder's small gem / Walter Kerr -- Music to my ears : Hindemith on Wilder -- The Alcestiad : the play and opera / Martin Blank -- Strange discipline : Wilder's one-act experiments / David Castronova -- Symbolist dimensions of Thornton Wilder / Paul Lifton -- "Preparing the way for them" : Wilder and the next generation / Donald Haberman -- Review of American characteristics and other essays / Megan Marshall -- Global Villager : the journal of Thornton Wilder, 1939-1961 / Harry Levin.