Thornton Wilder
Subtitle: new perspectives
By: edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Lincoln Konkle ; afterword by Will Eno
Contributors: Bryer, Jackson R.; Konkle, Lincoln; Eno, Will, 1965-
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780810129214
Subjects: Congresses; Criticism and interpretation
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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Jackson R. Bryer and Lincoln Konkle; title: Thornton Niven Wilder: a chronology --; title: Thornton Wilder for the twenty-first century  -- Tappan Wilder; title: The novels --; title: Part of the alphabet : Wilder as novelist  -- J.D. McClatchy; title: Ellerslie revisited : Wilder, Wilson, and Proust  -- Christopher Benfey; title: Historical religious crises in Wilder's early novels  -- Christopher Wheatley; title: Vis comica-on-the-lake : the Chicago roots of Thornton Wilder's concept of comedy  -- Arvid F. Sponberg; title: Omniscience and the fixer in Wilder's novels  -- Scott Donaldson; title: Thornton Wilder's Midwest : Heaven's my destination and The eighth day  -- Nancy Bunge; title: Major plays --; title: The outsider : contextualizing Simon Stimson in Our town  -- Kenneth Elliott; title: 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; title: No time like the present : Wilder's plays and Buddhist thought and time  -- Anne Fletcher; title: To the American clock by The skin of our teeth : Arthur Miller's debt to Thornton Wilder  -- Susan C W. Abbotson; title: Adaptations --; title: Wilder and Ibsen : the three texts of A doll's house  -- David Hammond; title: Lady Bountiful's farcical turn through Middleton, Farquhar, Wilder, and Ludwig  -- Anne F. Widmayer; title: "The great mill-wheel" of time : Thornton Wilder and Paul Hindemith's collaboration on The long Christmas dinner opera  -- Janie Caves McCauley; title: Lesser-known works --; title: Hitchcock and Wilder : writing and rewriting Shadow of a doubt  -- Max Alvarez; title: The Alcestiad : Thornton Wilder and the "incommensurability of things human and divine"  -- Mary C. English; title: "Carving some cherry stones" : disparities in The angel that troubled the waters and other plays  -- Edyta Oczkowicz; title: The view from abroad --; title: The early critical reception of Thornton Wilder in Italy  -- Dianna Pickens; title: The Japanese reception of Our town in 1941 : pre-modernism and Thornton Wilder  -- Hachiya Mizutani; title: "It's been the dream of my life to see Paris" : the pleasures and challenges of translating Our town into French  -- Julie Vatain; title: Theophilus North and the traditions of ancient Chinese allegory  -- Hansong Dan; title: Afterword: man in a chair -- Will Eno.