Description

Fifty years after the original production of Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller's play has as much emotional impact upon and relevance to the audience of twenty-first century America as it did when it was first performed. In this collection of papers, taken from the Fifth International Arthur Miller Conference in Brooklyn Heights, New York, authors focus on the play's position in America's dramatic literary canon. The subjects of the essays range from evaluation of the play in economic terms to critical analysis of specific productions, to a look at the body of Miller's works.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Arthur Miller: Time Traveller
Chapter 4 Celebrating Salesman
Chapter 5 The 1999 Revival of Death of a Salesman: A Critical Commentary
Chapter 6 "Attention Must be Paid:" Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and the American Century
Chapter 7 "The Condition of Tension:" Unity of Opposites as Dramatic Form and Vision in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Chapter 8 Masculine and Feminine in Death of a Salesman
Chapter 9 Willy Loman: The Tension Between Marxism and Capitalism
Chapter 10 "It's Brooklyn, I know, but we hunt too:" The Image of the Borough in Death of a Salesman
Chapter 11 From Loman to Lyman: The Salesman Forty Years On
Chapter 12 A View from Death of a Salesman
Chapter 13 Notes to Preface
Chapter 14 Index
Chapter 15 Contributors

Product details

Published May 10 2000
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 160
ISBN 9780761816546
Imprint University Press of America
Dimensions 230 x 147 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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