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9780761837107

Miller and Middle America Essays on Arthur Miller and the American Experience

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  • ISBN13:

    9780761837107

  • ISBN10:

    0761837108

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-03-09
  • Publisher: UPA
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Summary

Miller and Middle America features eleven essays by some of the world's leading Arthur Miller scholars on the playwright's contribution to the literary life of the United States. The essays explore Miller's role as a playwright in relation to American society, both celebrating the land and its heritage, while cautioning the country and its people. The collection provides an examination of Miller's depiction of various roles and professions, such as doctors and carpenters, as well as institutions, such as marriage. Other topics addressed include the language of Middle America, the changing landscape of the country, and even Middle-American political correctness. Finally, the volume offers an examination of Miller's use of memory and reality in his plays to explore and assign meaning to self and society.

Table of Contents

Arthur Miller : guardian of the dream of Americap. 1
Hegemony, hatred and the scapegoat mechanism in Playing for time and The cruciblep. 15
Arthur Miller's Clara : an interrogation of middle American political correctnessp. 31
"Physician heal thyself" : Arthur Miller's portrayal of doctorsp. 41
Miller, marriage, and middle America : an uneasy embracep. 55
Arthur Miller and the language of middle Americap. 71
Figuring our past and present in wood : wood imagery in Arthur Miller's The crucible and Death of a salesmanp. 79
Damn Yankee! : Leroy Hamilton crafts wood with passion and honesty, but who in modern America cares?p. 89
"[S]omewhere down deep where the sources are" : traces of the Snyder/Gray murder trial of 1927 in Death of a salesman?p. 99
The late plays of Arthur Miller : problematizing the realp. 107
The dangers of memory in Arthur Miller's I can't remember anythingp. 125
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