| Description |
1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
DQR studies in literature ; 37 |
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DQR studies in literature ; 37.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948 -- Criticism and interpretation, playwright
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| SUBJECT |
Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948 fast |
| Subject |
American literature -- Criticism and interpretation
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carpentier, Martha Celeste, editor
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Ozieblo, Bárbara, editor
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| ISBN |
9781435602533 |
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1435602536 |
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9042020830 |
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9789042020832 |
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9789401203463 |
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9401203466 |
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