Read complete books and articles on: Death of a Salesman

Miller, Arthur - 1915–, American dramatist, b. New York City, grad. Univ. of Michigan, 1938. Miller's plays are concerned with morality and the pressures exerted on people by family and society. His masterpiece, Death of a Salesman (1949; Pulitzer Prize), is the story of a salesman betrayed by his own hollow values and those of American society. The Crucible (1953) is both a dynamic

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Understanding Death of a Salesman: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents » Read Now
by Brenda Murphy, Susan C. W. Abbotson, Claudia Durst Johnson. 232 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This collection of social, cultural, and historical documents and popular materials, with linking explanations and commentary, will help the reader to study the play in the context of its time and cultural background. The collected materials are designed to work with the play to highlight inherent...
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This collection of social, cultural, and historical documents and popular materials, with linking explanations and commentary, will help the reader to study the play in the context of its time and cultural background. The collected materials are designed to work with the play to highlight inherent conflicts within American society which lie at the heart of Death of a Salesman, and to explore how the play affects and is affected by social mores and beliefs. Salesmanship and the changing face of business, along with perceptions of sports, gender, and families, are explored through selections drawn from a rich variety of sources that provide forceful evidence of the play's influence. Documents include essays, articles, and fiction, which have created or explored the social expectations of a typical American family in the late 1940s; unusual selections such as a self-analysis chart, an obituary, and a diary, which help to trace the history of salesmanship from the nineteenth century to the present day; and advertisements, song lyrics, speeches, how-to books, and other readings that promote an interdisciplinary study of the play.
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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (literary criticism) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 140 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Offers concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information presented in a user-friendly format for book reports and term papers. It condenses extensive critical research into one compact student handbook.
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Willy Loman » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 165 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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The Play, a Critical Anthology (Chap. 9 Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman") » Read Now
by Eric Bentley. 786 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...STRINDBERG The Ghost Sonata ARTHUR MILLER Death of a Salesman The Play A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY edited by...August Strindberg TR. ELIZABETH SPRIGGE 588 9. DEATH OF A SALESMAN ...
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Student Companion to Arthur Miller (Chap. 3 "Tragedy: Death of a Salesman") » Read Now
by Susan C. W. Abbotson. 174 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This critical introduction to Arthur Miller provides an indispensable aid for students and general readers to understand the depth and complexity of some of America's most important dramatic works. Beginning with a discussion of his life, this work traces not only Miller's theatrical career, but his...
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This critical introduction to Arthur Miller provides an indispensable aid for students and general readers to understand the depth and complexity of some of America's most important dramatic works. Beginning with a discussion of his life, this work traces not only Miller's theatrical career, but his formulative experiences with the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and the House Un-American Activities Committee. Detailed discussions of eight important plays are organized around the social and moral themes Miller derived from such events; these themes are evident in in such works as Death of A Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, and All My Sons. By placing Miller within the context of his times, this discussion reveals how he was influenced by and reacted to the major events in his own life and in American culture. Analysis of his more recent works such as The American Clock, Broken Glass and The Ride Down Mt. Morgan illustrate the consistency of Miller's strong moral vision, and his continuing innovative contributions to American theatre.
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"I'm Not a Dime a Dozen! I am Willy Loman!": The Significance of Names and Numbers in Death of a Salesman, in Journal of Evolutionary Psychology » Read Now
by Frank Ardolino. 11 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...significance of names and numbers in Death of a Salesman by Frank Ardolino In Death of a Salesman, Millers poetic use of demotic...names that appear throughout Death of a...
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Death of a Salesman: Deracination and Its Discontents, in American Jewish History » Read Now
by Julius Novick. 10 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library
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The Absent Father in Modern Drama ("Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman" p. 39) » Read Now
by Paul Rosefeldt. 166 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Glass Menagerie Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman 39 5 ESCAPE...1945 and Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman 1949 . Chapter 5 will continue...Menagerie Arthur Miller Death...
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Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition (Chap. 12 "Arthur Miller: Revisioning Realism") » Read Now
by William W. Demastes. 292 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...fundamentally realist plays even break with realist practice and slip into moments of overt theatrical manipulation. Death of a Salesman and The Glass Menagerie come...
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The Tragic Protest (Chap. VII "Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman") » Read Now
by Zygmunt Adamczewski. 282 pgs.

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...Miller Death of a Salesman -- The Viking...introduce the tragic? Death, it would seem. A saying of a modern author...not save from death, only from thoughts of it. Why then...
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Miller's Death of a Salesman, in Explicator » Read Now
by H. C. Phelps. 2 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Millers DEATH OF A SALESMAN Curiously, most critics seem...Arthur Millers classic drama Death of a Salesman , Willy Loman determines to commit...and the Possibility of...
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Death of a Salesman at Fifty-Still "Coming Home to Roost", in Texas Studies in Literature and Language » Read Now
by Terry Otten. 31 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Death of a Salesman at Fifty-- Still "Coming Home to...sense" ( Playwright , 128). If so, Death of a Salesman surely doubles the risk. For likely...quibbles" about whether...