Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman

Author: Arthur Miller

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1998-05-01

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 110104215X

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity—and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room. "By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." —Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times "So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." —Time

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Author: Peter L. Hays

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2008-03-01

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 0826495540

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An accessible, informative critical introduction to Miller's Death of a Salesman, a key text at undergraduate level.

The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller
The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller

Author: C. W. E. Bigsby

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-04-22

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0521768748

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Revised and updated to include Miller's late work and the key productions and criticism since the playwright's death in 2005.

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Author: Liza McAlister Williams

Publisher: Barron's Educational Series

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780812034103

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A guide to reading "Death of a Salesman" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.

Salesman in Beijing
Salesman in Beijing

Author: Arthur Miller

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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In 1983 Arthur Miller was invited to direct Death of a Salesman at the Beijing People's Theatre, with Chinese actors. While there, he kept a diary: this book tells the story of Miller's time in China, and of the paradoxes of directing in a Communist country a tragedy of American capitalism.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Author: Dave Eggers

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2001-02-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0676973655

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"I think this book is kind of malleable. I've never really wanted to put it away and be done with it forever -- the second I first 'finished' it, I wanted to dig back in and change everything around. So I'm looking forward to getting back into the text, and straightening and focusing and deleting. Most of all, I'm thrilled that Vintage will be letting me include all the cool chase scenes, previously censored." -- Dave Eggers The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his seven-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is an instant classic that will be read in paperback for decades to come. PAPERBACK EDITION -- 15% MORE STAGGERING - Eggers has written 15,000 additional words for the Vintage Canada edition, including an entirely new appendix.

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Author: Eric Sterling

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 904202450X

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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, the third volume in the Dialogue series, covers six major and controversial topics dealing with Miller's classic play. The topics include feminism and the role of women in the drama, the American Dream, business and capitalism, the significance of technology, the legacy that Willy leaves to Biff, and Miller's use of symbolism. The authors of the essays include prominent Arthur Miller scholars such as Terry Otten and the late Steven Centola as well as young, emerging scholars. Some of the essays, particularly the ones written by the emerging scholars, tend to employ literary theory while the ones by the established scholars tend to illustrate the strengths of traditional criticism by interpreting the text closely. It is fascinating to see how scholars at different stages of their academic careers approach a given topic from distinct perspectives and sometimes diverse methodologies. The essays offer insightful and provocative readings of Death of a Salesman in a collection that will prove quite useful to scholars and students of Miller's most famous play.

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Author: Harold Bloom

Publisher: Facts On File

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781604138757

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An overview of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" features a biographical sketch of the author, a list of characters, a summary of the plot, and critical and analytical views of the work.

Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman/The Crucible
Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman/The Crucible

Author: Stephen Marino

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-08-16

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1350310107

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Arthur Miller was one of the most important American playwrights and political and cultural figures of the 20th century. Both Death of a Salesman and The Crucible stand out as his major works: the former is always in performance somewhere in the world and the latter is Miller's most produced play. As major modern American dramas, they are the subject of a huge amount of criticism which can be daunting for students approaching the plays for the first time. This Reader's Guide introduces the major critical debates surrounding the plays and discusses their unique production histories, initial theatre reviews and later adaptations. The main trends of critical inquiry and scholars who have purported them are examined, as are the views of Miller himself, a prolific self-critic.