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The new essays in this collection, on such diverse writers as Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, Maurine Dallas Watkins, Sophie Treadwell, and Washington Irving, fill an important conceptual gap. The essayists offer numerous approaches to intertextuality: the influence of the poetry of romanticism and Shakespeare and of histories and novels, ideological and political discourses on American playwrights, unlikely connections between such writers as Miller and Wilder, the problems of intertexts in translation, the evolution in historical and performance contexts of the same tale, and the relationships among feminism, the drama of the courtroom, and the drama of the stage.
Intertextuality has been an under-explored area in studies of dramatic and performance texts. The innovative findings of these scholars testify to the continuing vitality of research in American drama and performance.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction: What Is "Intertextuality" and Why Is the Term
Important Today? deleteDrew Eisenhauer
Part I: Literary Intertextuality
Section One: Poets
The Ancient Mariner and O'Neill's Intertextual Epiphany
(Herman Daniel Farrell III)
"Deep in my silent sea": Eugene O'Neill's Extended
Adaptation of Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner
(Rupendra Guha Majumdar)
A Multi-Faceted Moon: Shakespearean and Keatsian Echoes
in Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten
(Aurélie Sanchez)
Trailing Clouds of Glory: Glaspell, Romantic Ideology
and Cultural Conflict in Modern American Literature
(Michael Winetsky)
On Closets and Graves: Intertextualities in Susan Glaspell's
Alison's House and Emily Dickinson's Poetry
(Noelia Hernando-Real)
Section Two: 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)
"Cut Out the Town and You Will Cut Out the Poetry":
Thornton Wilder and Arthur Miller (Stephen Marino)
"And I am changed too": Irving's Rip Van Winkle from Page
to Stage (Jason Shaffer)
Part II: Cultural Intertextuality
Section Three: Cultural Texts
Looking for Herland: Embodying the Search for Utopia
Susan Glaspell's The Verge (Franklin J. Lasik)
Intertextuality on the Frontier in Susan Glaspell's Inheritors
(Sarah Withers)
Fighting Archangels: The Deus Absconditus in Eugene
O'Neill's Dialogue with the Bible, Nietzsche and Jung
(Annalisa Brugnoli)
Intertextual Insanities in Susan Glaspell's The Verge
(Emeline Jouve)
Section Four: Cultural Context
Female Playwrights, Female Killers: Intersecting Texts
of Crime and Gender in Glaspell, Watkins and Treadwell
(Lisa Hall Hagen)
A "Psalm" for Its Time: History, Memory and Nostalgia
Thornton Wilder's Our Town (Jeffrey Eric Jenkins)
Rain in an Actually Strange City: Translating and Re-Situating
the Universality of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
(Ramón Espejo Romero)
"Doorways" and "Blank Spaces": Intertextual Connection
John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation (Graham Wolfe)
"What there is behind us": Susan Glaspell's Challenge
to Nativist Discourse in Stage Adaptations of Her Harper's
Monthly Fiction (Sharon Friedman)
About the Contributors
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