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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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