Format:
1 Online-Ressource (307 pages)
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Illustrations
ISBN:
9789401203463
Series Statement:
DQR studies in literature 37
Content:
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 pol
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; Introduction; Susan Glaspell's Naturalist Scenarios of Determinism and Blind Faith; Apollonian Form and Dionysian Excess in Susan Glaspell's Drama and Fiction; Suppressed Desires and Tickless Time: An Intertextual Critique of Modernity; The Narrow House: Glaspell's Trifles and Wharton's Ethan Frome; Flowers by Design: Susan Glaspell's Re-vision of Strindberg's A Dream Play; American Expressionism and the New Woman: Glaspell, Treadwell, Bonner and a Dramaturgy of Social Conscience; She and She : Rachel Crothers and Susan Glaspell's Turn to Playwriting
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Silenced Mothers and Questing Daughters in Susan Glaspell's Mature NovelsSilence and the Struggle for Representational Space in the Art of Susan Glaspell; Reaching for ""Out There"": Susan Glaspell's Rhetoric of the Female Artist; Social Rebels? Male Characters in Susan Glaspell's Writing; Socialist Housekeeping: The Visioning, Sisterhood, and Cross-Class Alliance; ""Rules of the Institution"": Susan Glaspell and Sisterhood; America Unmasked: Cultural Commentary in Susan Glaspell's Short Fiction; The Political as Personal in the Writing of Susan Glaspell; Contributors; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9042020822
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789042020832
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789042020825
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Disclosing Intertextualities : The Stories, Plays, and Novels of Susan Glaspell
Language:
English
Keywords:
Glaspell, Susan 1876-1948
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Glaspell, Susan 1876-1948
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1163/9789401203463
Author information:
Ozieblo, Bárbara 1948-
