Thornton Wilder, Classical Reception, and American Literature

ISBN-13: 9781032014654 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 198 str.

Stephen J. Rojcewicz Jr

Opis

This book delineates how Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), a learned playwright and novelist, embeds himself within the classical tradition, integrating Greek and Roman motifs with a wide range of sources to produce heart-breaking masterpieces such as Our Town and comedy sensations such as Dolly Levi.

Spis treści

List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Thornton Wilder as Poeta Doctus; Chapter Two. An American Successor to Vergil: The Cabala; Chapter Three. Sapphica puella Musa doctior: The Female Sage; Chapter Four. The Torch Race of Literature and The Skin of Our Teeth; Chapter Five. Our Tears: Lacrimae Rerum as Wilder’s Recurrent Motif; Bibliography; Index

O autorze

Stephen J. Rojcewicz, Jr. is an American independent scholar. He balanced his M.D. with an M.A. in Classics and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. Crediting his years of practice in psychiatry with attentiveness to nuance and patterns, he has published on Thornton Wilder, classical reception, and the medical humanities.