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UNINA9910454441303321 |
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Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Eric J. Sterling |
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Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2008 |
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94-012-0623-6 |
1-4356-8484-2 |
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1 online resource (202 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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American drama - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preliminary Material / Eric J. Sterling -- Introduction / Eric J. Sterling -- Linda Loman: “Attention must be paid” / Eric J. Sterling -- Domestic Tragedies: The Feminist Dilemma in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman / Eric J. Sterling -- Arthur Miller: Guardian of the Dream of America / Eric J. Sterling -- Refocusing America’s Dream / Eric J. Sterling -- Capitalist America in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman: A Re-consideration / Eric J. Sterling -- Willy Loman and the Legacy of Capitalism / Eric J. Sterling -- The Dynamo, the Salesman, and the Playwright / Eric J. Sterling -- Mystifying the Machine: Staged and Unstaged Technologies in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman / Eric J. Sterling -- In His Father’s Image: Biff Loman’s Struggle with Inherited Traits in Death of a Salesman / Eric J. Sterling -- The Emergence of Hope in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman / Eric J. Sterling -- “A little boat looking for a harbor”: Sexual Symbolism in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman / Eric J. Sterling -- Compensatory Symbolism in Miller’s Death of a Salesman / Eric J. Sterling -- About the Authors / Eric J. Sterling -- Abstracts / Eric J. Sterling -- Index / Eric J. Sterling. |
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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 |
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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. |
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UNINA9911046676403321 |
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Saltzman Lisa |
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Daguerreotypes : Fugitive Subjects, Contemporary Objects / / Lisa Saltzman |
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Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Photography, Artistic - Philosophy |
Photography - Social aspects |
Photography - History |
Photographic interpetation |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. DAGUERREOTYPES -- CHAPTER ONE. RETRO- SPECTACLES -- CHAPTER TWO. ORPHANS -- CHAPTER THREE. JUST DRAWINGS -- CHAPTER FOUR. TIME REGAINED -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- INDEX |
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In the digital age, photography confronts its future under the |
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competing signs of ubiquity and obsolescence. While technology has allowed amateurs and experts alike to create high-quality photographs in the blink of an eye, new electronic formats have severed the original photochemical link between image and subject. At the same time, recent cinematic photography has stretched the concept of photography and raised questions about its truth value as a documentary medium. Despite this situation, photography remains a stubbornly substantive form of evidence: referenced by artists, filmmakers, and writers as a powerful emblem of truth, photography has found its home in other media at precisely the moment of its own material demise. By examining this idea of photography as articulated in literature, film, and the graphic novel, Daguerreotypes demonstrates how photography secures identity for figures with an otherwise unstable sense of self. Lisa Saltzman argues that in many modern works, the photograph asserts itself as a guarantor of identity, whether genuine or fabricated. From Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz to Alison Bechdel's Fun Home-we find traces of photography's "fugitive subjects" throughout contemporary culture. Ultimately, Daguerreotypes reveals how the photograph, at once personal memento and material witness, has inspired a range of modern artistic and critical practices. |
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