Thornton Wilder, Classical Reception, and American Literature

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jr. Rojcewicz, Stephen J. Rojcewicz, Stephen J. Rojcewicz Jr.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781032014654
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3201465-4
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; USA, English, HISTORY / Ancient / General, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000