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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.
Glaspell, Susan, --- Cook, George Cram, --- Cook, Susan, --- Glaspel, Susan, --- Criticism and interpretation, --- American literature --- Criticism and interpretation. --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers)
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The conflict between the political and the personal, an opposition which pervades the whole of American Literature, informs the essays on twentieth-century American theater gathered in this volume. Prominent theater scholars from Europe and America address the cultural paradigm created by the clash of private needs with public expectations. The difficulty of reconciling the two has led many dramatists to turn to the complexities of intertextuality in order to express their rebellions and rejections of inherited cultural values and myths. Essays on Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Susan Glaspell, H.M. Koutoukas, Dolores Prida, or Suzan Lori-Parks (to name but a few of the dramatists discussed here) reflect the vibrancy of American drama and the depth of the interaction of the political with the personal.
American literature --- Drama --- anno 1900-1999 --- Amerikaanse letterkunde --- Littérature américaine --- Pièces de théâtre --- Toneelstukken --- American drama --- Politics and literature --- Theater --- Political plays, American --- History and criticism --- History --- Political aspects --- American drama - 20th century - History and criticism --- Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century --- Theater - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century --- Theater - United States - History - 20th century --- Political plays, American - History and criticism
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Amerikaanse letterkunde --- Dramaturgie --- Littérature américaine --- Théâtre --- Toneel --- American drama --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Nationalism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- American drama - 20th century - History and criticism. --- American drama - 21st century - History and criticism.
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