Disclosing intertextualities : the stories, plays, and novels of Susan Glaspell / edited by Martha C. Carpentier and Barbara Ozieblo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carpentier, Martha Celeste.

Ozieblo, Bárbara.

Series:

DQR studies in literature ; 37.

DQR studies in literature ; 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Criticism and interpretation.

American literature.

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

Glaspell, Susan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Stories, plays, and novels of Susan Glaspell

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For the first time, this volume brings together essays by feminist, Americanist, and theater scholars who apply a variety of sophisticated critical approaches to Susan Glaspell’s entire oeuvre. Glaspell’s one-act play, “Trifles,” and the short story that she constructed from it, “A Jury of Her Peers,” have drawn the attention of many feminist critics, but the rest of her writing—the short stories, plays and novels—is largely unknown. The essays gathered here will allow students of literature, women’s studies and theater studies an insight into the variety and scope of her oeuvre. Glaspell’s political and literary thinking was radicalized by the turbulent Greenwich Village environment of the first decades of the twentieth century, by progressive-era social movements and by modernist literary and theatrical innovation. The focus of Glaspell studies has, till recently, been dominated by the feminist imperative to recover a canon of silenced women writers and, in particular, to restore Glaspell to her rightful place in American drama. Transcending the limitations generated by such a specific agenda, the contributors to this volume approach Glaspell’s work as a dialogic intersection of genres, texts, and cultural phenomena—a method that is particularly apt for Glaspell, who moved between genres with a unique fluidity, creating such modernist masterpieces as The Verge or Brook Evans . This volume establishes Glaspell’s work as an “intersection of textual surfaces,” resulting for the first time in the complex aesthetic appreciation that her varied life’s work merits.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Martha C. Carpentier and Barbara Ozieblo

DISCLOSING INTERTEXTUALITIES: INTRODUCTION / Martha C. Carpentier and Barbara Ozieblo

SUSAN GLASPELL’S NATURALIST SCENARIOS OF DETERMINISM AND BLIND FAITH / Mary E. Papke

APOLLONIAN FORM AND DIONYSIAN EXCESS IN SUSAN GLASPELL’S DRAMA AND FICTION / Martha C. Carpentier

SUPPRESSED DESIRES AND TICKLESS TIME: AN INTERTEXTUAL CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY / Marcia Noe and Robert Marlowe

THE NARROW HOUSE: GLASPELL’S TRIFLES AND WHARTON’S ETHAN FROME / Susan Koprince

FLOWERS BY DESIGN: SUSAN GLASPELL’S RE-VISION OF STRINDBERG’S A DREAM PLAY / Monica Stufft

AMERICAN EXPRESSIONISM AND THE NEW WOMAN: GLASPELL, TREADWELL, BONNER AND A DRAMATURGY OF SOCIAL CONSCIENCE / Rytch Barber

SHE AND SHE: RACHEL CROTHERS AND SUSAN GLASPELL’S TURN TO PLAYWRITING / Drew Eisenhauer

SILENCED MOTHERS AND QUESTING DAUGHTERS IN SUSAN GLASPELL’S MATURE NOVELS / Barbara Ozieblo

SILENCE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR REPRESENTATIONAL SPACE IN THE ART OF SUSAN GLASPELL / Kecia Driver McBride

REACHING FOR “OUT THERE”: SUSAN GLASPELL’S RHETORIC OF THE FEMALE ARTIST / Karen H. Gardiner

SOCIAL REBELS? MALE CHARACTERS IN SUSAN GLASPELL’S WRITINGS / Kristina Hinz-Bode

SOCIALIST HOUSEKEEPING: THE VISIONING, SISTERHOOD, AND CROSS-CLASS ALLIANCE / Cynthia Stretch

“THE RULES OF THE INSTITUTION”: SUSAN GLASPELL AND SISTERHOOD / Caroline Violet Fletcher

AMERICA UNMASKED: CULTURAL COMMENTARY IN SUSAN GLASPELL’S SHORT FICTION / Colette Lindroth

THE POLITICAL AS PERSONAL IN THE WRITING OF SUSAN GLASPELL / Linda Ben-Zvi

CONTRIBUTORS / Martha C. Carpentier and Barbara Ozieblo

INDEX / Martha C. Carpentier and Barbara Ozieblo.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0346-6

1-4356-0253-6

OCLC:

176906217

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401203463 DOI