Understanding Lillian Hellman
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Understanding Lillian Hellman
（Understanding contemporary American literature）
University of South Carolina Press, 2009
- : pbk
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注記
Cloth edition published: 1999
Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-158) and index
収録内容
- Career
- The children's hour
- Another part of the forest and The little foxes
- Watch on the Rhine
- The autumn garden
- Toys in the attic
- An unfinished woman and Pentimento
- Scoundrel time
- Maybe
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内容説明
This is a concise introduction to one of America's preeminent playwrights and memorists. In this perceptive study of the literary career of Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), Alice Griffin and Geraldine Thorsten provide a balanced, in-depth examination of Hellman's major works. In the thirties, when Hellman's theater career began, George Jean Nathan, the dean of theater critics, suggested that although Hellman was the country's foremost playwright, she would never equal a man. Correcting the badly skewed evaluations that such bias fostered, Griffin and Thorsten give Hellman's plays fresh critical assessments as they analyze her rarely acknowledged dramatic gifts for humor, irony, satire, and strong narrative line and dialogue, as well as her concern for moral issues. They also credit Hellman's memoirs with introducing innovations in free association, elliptical time, and symbolism to the genre. Griffin and Thorsten demonstrate that Hellman's distinctive voice influenced other major playwrights - including Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams - and inspired a younger generation of women writers.
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