Arthur Miller, New Edition

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Harold Bloom
Infobase Publishing, 2009 - Criticism - 238 pages
Playwright Arthur Miller is best known for his works A View from the Bridge, The Crucible, All My Sons, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Death of a Salesman. A powerful modern tragedy,Death of a Salesman helped ushe
 

Contents

Introduction
1
A Historians View
9
The Wooster Group Arthur Miller and The Crucible
23
All My Sons and Paternal Authority
39
unhappy confessions in The Crucible
57
Life Imitates Art
79
A Humanist Response to a Postmodern World
93
Death of a Salesman and Popular Sales Advice Literature
107
The Strange Case of Career of a Salesman
169
Arthur Miller 19152005
185
The playwright drew a line between reaching out and selling out
191
Arthur Miller and the Art of Possibility
197
Chronology
215
Contributors
217
Bibliography
221
Acknowledgments
225

A Portrait of Arthur Miller
115
Deracination and Its Discontents
131
Arthur Millers Ironic Resurrection
143

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About the author (2009)

Harold Bloom was born on July 11, 1930 in New York City. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell in 1951 and his Doctorate from Yale in 1955. After graduating from Yale, Bloom remained there as a teacher, and was made Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1983. Bloom's theories have changed the way that critics think of literary tradition and has also focused his attentions on history and the Bible. He has written over twenty books and edited countless others. He is one of the most famous critics in the world and considered an expert in many fields. In 2010 he became a founding patron of Ralston College, a new institution in Savannah, Georgia, that focuses on primary texts. His works include Fallen Angels, Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems, Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life and The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of The King James Bible. Harold Bloom passed away on October 14, 2019 in New Haven, at the age of 89.

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