Intertextuality in American drama : critical essays on Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller and other playwrights / edited by Drew Eisenhauer and Brenda Murphy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eisenhauer, Drew.

Murphy, Brenda, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005.

Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975.

Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948.

O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953.

American drama--20th century--History and criticism.

American drama.

O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953--Criticism and interpretation.

O'Neill, Eugene.

Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948--Criticism and interpretation.

Glaspell, Susan.

Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975--Criticism and interpretation.

Wilder, Thornton.

Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005--Criticism and interpretation.

Miller, Arthur.

Intertextuality.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

vi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2013]

Summary:

"The essays in this collection fill an important conceptual gap in present-day criticism. New essays are presented on such diverse writers. The essayists offer diverse approaches, such as the influence of poetry, histories and novels, ideological and political discourses, unlikely connections, the problems of translation, the evolution, and the relationships"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Literary Intertextuality

Section 1 Poets

The Ancient Mariner and O'Neill's Intertextual Epiphany / Herman Daniel Farrell III Farrell, Herman Daniel III 10

"Deep in my silent sea": Eugene O'Neill's Extended Adaptation of Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner / Rupendra Guha Majumdar Majumdar, Rupendra Guha 25

A Multi-Faceted Moon: Shakespearean and Keatsian Echoes in Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten / Aurélie Sanchez Sanchez, Aurélie 36

Trailing Clouds of Glory: Glaspell, Romantic Ideology and Cultural Conflict in Modern American Literature / Michael Winetsky Winetsky, Michael 52

On Closets and Graves: Intertextualities in Susan Glaspell's Alison's House and Emily Dickinson's Poetry / Noelia Hernando-Real Hernando-Real, Noelia 63

Section 2 Playwrights and Performance Texts

The Tragic Heroine: An Intertextual Study of Thornton Wilder's Women in The Skin of Our Teeth, The Long Christmas Dinner, and Our Town / Kristin Bennett Bennett, Kristin 76

"Cut Out the Town and You Will Cut Out the Poetry": Thornton Wilder and Arthur Miller / Stephen Marino Marino, Stephen 90

"And I am changed too": Irving's Rip Van Winkle from Page to Stage / Jason Shaffer Shaffer, Jason 99

Part II Cultural Intertextuality

Section 3 Cultural Texts

Looking for Herland: Embodying the Search for Utopia in Susan Glaspell's The Verge / Franklin J. Lasik Lasik, Franklin J. 114

Intertextuality on the Frontier in Susan Glaspell's Inheritors / Sarah Withers Withers, Sarah 126

Fighting Archangels: The Deus Absconditus in Eugene O'Neill's Dialogue with the Bible, Nietzsche and Jung / Annalisa Brugnoli Brugnoli, Annalisa 142

Intertextual Insanities in Susan Glaspell's The Verge / Emeline Jouve Jouve, Emeline 154

Section 4 Cultural Context

Female Playwrights, Female Killers: Intersecting Texts of Crime and Gender in Glaspell, Watkins and Treadwell / Lisa Hall Hagen Hagen, Lisa Hall 169

A "Psalm" for Its Time: History, Memory and Nostalgia in Thornton Wilder's Our Town / Jeffrey Eric Jenkins Jenkins, Jeffrey Eric 188

Rain in an Actually Strange City: Translating and Re-Situating the Universality of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman / Ramón Espejo Romero Romero, Ramón Espejo 205

"Doorways" and "Blank Spaces": Intertextual Connection in John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation / Graham Wolfe Wolfe, Graham 217

"What there is behind us": Susan Glaspell's Challenge to Nativist Discourse in Stage Adaptations of Her Harper's Monthly Fiction / Sharon Friedman Friedman, Sharon 232.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786463916

0786463910

OCLC:

779876962