Thornton Wilder in Collaboration: Collected Essays on His Drama and Fiction
The essays in this volume evolved from papers presented at the Second International Thornton Wilder Conference, held at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, in June 2015. They examine Wilder’s work as both playwright and novelist, focusing upon how he drew on the collaborative mode of creativity required in the theatre, when writing both drama and fiction. The book’s authors use the term “collaboration” in its broadest sense, at times in response to Wilder’s critics who faulted him for “borrowing” from other, earlier, literary works rather than recognizing these “borrowings” as central to the artistic process of collaboration. In exploring Wilder’s collaborative efforts of different kinds, the essays not only consider how Wilder worked with and revised earlier literary texts and the ideas central to those texts, but also analyze how Wilder worked with and inspired other creative individuals and how recent productions of Wilder’s plays, both in the US and abroad, have been the products of unique forms of collaboration.
Jackson R. Bryer is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the editor of Conversations with Thornton Wilder and the co-editor of The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder and Thornton Wilder: New Perspectives. He is the president of the Thornton Wilder Society.
Judith P. Hallett is Professor of Classics at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has published widely in the areas of Latin language and literature; women; the family and sexuality in Greco-Roman antiquity; and the study and reception of the classics in the Anglophone world. Domina Illustris: Literature, Gender and Reception, a 2013 collection edited by Donald Lateiner, Barbara Gold, and Judith Perkins, celebrates her academic career. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Thornton Wilder Society.
Edyta K. Oczkowicz is Associate Professor of English at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She has served as the editor of The Thornton Wilder Society Newsletter and her essay on Wilder’s The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays appeared in Thornton Wilder: New Perspectives. She has also published interviews and essays in MELUS: The Journal for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States and MaComere: The Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Thornton Wilder Society.
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