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About The Arthur Miller Journal
The Arthur Miller Journal is published by the Arthur Miller Society, in cooperation with the Arthur Miller Centre at the University of East Anglia and St. Francis College in Brooklyn.
Students can apply for internships where they will take part in the complete creative and publishing process that goes into the creation of the journal.
The Arthur Miller Journal welcomes essays on any aspect of Miller’s life, work, career, and connection to other writers. We invite book, production, film and performance reviews. We also are interested in publishing teaching notes and short notes regarding new approaches to Miller and his work.
Submit all essays and reviews through the journal’s online and peer review system at http://www.editorialmanager.com/amj. Contributions should conform to the MLA Style Manual and not exceed 8,000 words. Essays are blind vetted. Send all mail inquiries to:
Stephen Marino
Editor, The Arthur Miller Journal
St. Francis College
Communications Dept.
180 Remsen Street Brooklyn, New York 11201.
Book Review matters should be addressed to George Castellitto at: [email protected]. Performance Review inquiries should be addressed to Susan Abbotson:[email protected].
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Past Issues
Volume I Number 1 - Spring 2006
Contents
Editor’s Note: “I have no wisdom beyond my plays.”
1
Arthur Miller: Un-American
Christopher Bigsby
3
“Pattern Born Amid Formlessness”:
The Law of Chaos in the Plays of Arthur Miller
Steven R. Centola
19
Arthur Miller’s Staging of the Threshold of Violence
Jeffrey Mason
31
Uneasy Collaboration: Miller, Kazan, and After the Fall
Brenda Murphy
51
A Final Conversation with Arthur Miller
Interviewed by Christopher Bigsby
63
Book Reviews
81
Bigsby, Christopher. Remembering Arthur Miller.
Brater, Enoch. Arthur Miller, A Playwright’s Life and Work.
Miller, Arthur. The Collected Plays of Arthur Miller, 1944-1961, edited by Tony Kushner.
Performance Reviews
85
A View From the Bridge by Carlos Campo, The Price by Jane Dominik, The Price by Stephen Marino, All My Sons by Will Smith, A Tribute to Arthur Millerby Stephen Marino, Death of a Salesman and Awake and Sing by Nicole De Sapio, Resurrection Blues by Jan Balakian, Resurrection Blues by Kate Egerton
Volume I Number 2 - Fall 2006
Contents
The “line to measure from”:
Arthur Miller’s The American Clock as a Lesson for the Ages
Susan C.W. Abbotson
1
Music in Miller’s Drama
Jane K. Dominik
21
Miller and Derrida
Peter Costello
39
A Conversation with Eli Wallach
Interviewed by Joseph Kane
53
Book Reviews
65
Ali, Syed Mashkoor. Arthur Miller, Twentieth Century Legend.
Centola, Steven R. and Michelle Cirulli. The Critical Response to Arthur Miller.
Viswamohan, Aysha. Arthur Miller: The Dramatist and His Universe.
Performance Reviews
77
All My Sons by Susan Abbotson, The Crucible by Lew Livesay, The Archbishop’s Ceiling by Ashis Sengupta, All My Sons by Stephen Marino
Volume II Number 1 - Spring 2007
Contents
“There’s No Place Like Home”:
Miller’s ‘Poem,’ Frost’s ‘Play’
George Monteiro
1
The Road to Reno:
Inge Morath, Marilyn Monroe, and The Embodiment of the American West
Katherine Egerton
15
The Revolt of Responsibility:
A Symbolic Reading of Miller’s Incident at Vichy
Joshua E. Polster
25
“A smile and a shoeshine”
From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Jonathan Franzen, By Way of Arthur Miller:
The American Dream in The Great Gatsby, Death of a Salesman, and The Corrections
Ty Hawkins
49
Book Reviews
69
Brater, Enoch. Global Miller.
Langteau, Paula. Miller and Middle America
Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 2.2 (Fall 2005)
Performance Reviews
77
The Crucible by Yuko Kurahashi, The Price by Jan Balakian, All My Sons by Susan Abbotson, All My Sons by Joseph Kane, Broken Glass by Jane K. Dominik, Death of a Salesman by Jane K. Dominik, The Crucible by George Castellitto.
The Arthur Miller Society
Program and Abstracts from the Eleventh
Arthur Miller Conference,
Call for Papers, Conference Announcements
101
Volume II Number 2 - Fall 2007
Contents
A Fallible Hero
Christopher Bigsby
1
The Greatest Cars Ever Built:
Arthur Miller’s Production Line of Chevrolets, Buicks, Studebakers, Marmons, Porsches and Other Vehicles of Death and Destruction,
Stephen Marino
5
Arthur Miller’s ‘Dream Tissue’:
Uncanny Parallels between Fritz Lang’s Testament of Dr. Mabuse and Miller’s Everybody Wins
Lew Livesay
17
Notes
Five Willys
Leigh Woods
33
‘When you look at me, you don't see me’:
Sight and Self in Miller’s Focus
Carlos Campo
37
Opening of the Arthur Miller Theatre
University of Michigan
41
Book Reviews
45
Miller, Arthur. Presence.
Carpenter, Charles. Bibliography of Arthur Miller.
Performance Reviews
49
Death of a Salesman by Frank Bergmann, The Crucible by Carol Bailey,Death of a Salesman by Peter Hays, Death of a Salesman by Philip Wissbeck, The Crucible by Philip Wissbeck
The Arthur Miller Society,
Program and Abstracts from the American Literature Association May 2007,
Call for Papers, Conference Announcements
59
Contributors
67
Volume III Number 1 - Spring 2008
Contents
Drama Matters: Suitcases, Sand, and Dry Goods
Enoch Brater
1
Another View From the Bridge
Thomas Horan
17
“Paradise Keeps Slipping Back”:
The Misfits and After the Fall
Ashis Sengupta
29
A Conversation with Joan Copeland
Interviewed by Stephen Marino
43
Notes
The Young God:
“Gold” as Theme and Motif in Death of a Salesman and Golden Boy
Nicole De Sapio
67
Then the Country Itself Was Gone
Joseph Masselli
77
Book Reviews
81
Susan Abbotson. A Critical Companion to Arthur Miller:
A Literary Reference to His Life and Work.
Performance Reviews
83
The Price by Mary Isbell, “An Audience with Brian Dennehy” by Joe Kane, I Can’t Remember Anything by Catherine Clavin, The Crucible by Stephen Marino, The Crucible by Students of St. Francis Prep, The Crucible by Will Smith, The Crucible by David Smith, The Man Who Had All the Luck by Christopher Bigsby, The Man Who Had All the Luck by Molly Marino
The Arthur Miller Society
In Memoriam: Steven R. Centola
113
Call for Papers, Conference Announcements
117
Contributors
119
Cover Design by Addie Marino, based on Joseph Hirsch's drawing of Willy Loman, which appeared on the first edition of Death of a Salesman.
Volume III Number 2 - Fall 2008
Contents
Carping about Death of a Salesman:
Willy’s Incongruous Suicide and Some Lesser Disparities
Charles A. Carpenter
1
Home and the Homeless:
Family and Myth in Shepard and Miller
Timothy O’Grady
17
Friendship as Unifying Motif in The Fall and After The Fall
Carlos Campo
33
The Trauma of Articulation:
Holocaust Representation in After the Fall and Broken Glass
Alison Forsyth
41
Notes
Teaching Salesman in 2008
Janet Balakian
61
Book Reviews
71
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Peter L. Hays (with Kent Nicholson)
Performance Reviews
73
A View From the Bridge by Nicole De Sapio; Death of a Salesman by Karen Morrisette; Death of a Salesman, an interview with Bob Colonna, by Susan Abbotson
The Arthur Miller Society
Sessions at the American Literature Association
Conference May 2008
85
Contributors
87
Cover Design by Addie Marino, based on Joseph Hirsch's drawing of Willy Loman, which appeared on the first edition of Death of a Salesman.
Volume IV Number 1 - Spring 2009
Contents
Liturgical Legacies of Arthur Miller:
Uses of Religion as Ideological (De)Construction in the Plays of Christopher Duran
L. Troy Appling
1
Recognizing the “Beauty” of Homely Girl :
Arthur Miller’s Eightieth Birthday Gift to the World
Ellyn Lem
9
Lyman Felt, the Surreal Hero of a Surreal Play:
The Ride Down Mount Morgan.
Christiane Desafy-Grignard
19
Notes
The Mythological Significance of Happy in Death of a Salesman
Frank R Ardolino
29
The Incontrovertible Nature of Print in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons
Brian S. Reinking
33
Book Reviews
39
Arthur Miller: 1915-1962, by Christopher Bigsby
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman , by Eric Sterling
Performance Reviews
47
All My Sons, a Symposium, by Joe Kane, Stephen Marino, Andre Perez; Theresa Maglione, and Theresa Quinn; A View From the Bridge by Paula Langteau, A View From the Bridge by Timothy O'Grady; Death of a Salesmanby Anthony Mountain; Death of a Salesman by David Smith.
Letters
73
The Arthur Miller Society
The American Drama Conference
Fall 2008 Program and Photos
75
Contributors
89
Cover Design by Addie Marino, based on Joseph Hirsch's drawing of Willy Loman, which appeared on the first edition of Death of a Salesman.
Volume IV Number 2 - Fall 2009
Contents
The Correspondence of Arthur Miller and E. James Lieberman
1
Saving Face: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Corporate Downsizing in Death of a Salesman
Adrienne Akins
5
Jewish Responsibility During the Holocaust:
Miller’s Broken Glass and Megged’s Hanna Senesh
Gene A. Plunka
13
Notes
Inside the Soul of an American Director
Stephan Morrow
35
Mr. Outside and Mr. Inside: Football as Prop and Pastime in Death of a Salesman
Timothy Dugan
43
Performance Reviews
Incident at Vichy by Lew Livesay, Death of a Salesman by Susan C. W. Abbotson, A View From the Bridge by Michael Moe, The American Clock by Jenny Taylor
51
The Arthur Miller Society,
American Literature Association
May 2009 Sessions and Abstracts,
Call for Papers,
Conference Announcements
75
Contributors
87
Cover Design by Addie Marino, based on Joseph Hirsch's drawing of Willy Loman, which appeared on the first edition of Death of a Salesman.
Volume V Number 1 - Spring 2010
Contents
The Crucible Made Opera
Robert Paul Kolt
1
Hearts that Refuse to Burn:
American Existentialism In the Plays of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams
Lori Freshwater
29
Birth of a Healer:
Paddy Chayefsky’s The Hospital As a Response to Death of a Salesman
Noah Brozinsky
47
Notes
Three Chairs and a Trophy:
Reexamining the Familiar In Death of a Salesman
Daniel R. Bronson
63
A View From the Book Club
Molly Marino
69
Book Reviews
71
The American Play 1787-2000 . by Marc Robinson. New Haven: Yale UP, 2009.
Performance Reviews
73
A View From the Bridge, a Symposium by Stephen Marino, Susan C. W. Abbotson, Jeffrey Porter, Anthony Avery, and Angelina Arias; All My Sons by David Smith; All My Sons by Joseph Kane; All My Sons by Susan C. W. Abbotson and Joshua Polster; The Price by David Smith.
The Arthur Miller Society
Conference Announcements
107
Contributors
109
Cover Design by Addie Marino, based on Joseph Hirsch's drawing of Willy Loman, which appeared on the first edition of Death of a Salesman.
Volume V Number 2, Fall 2010
Contents
Father-Son Conflict and the American Dream in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesmanand August Wilson’s Fences
Ama Wattley
1
Connections Between Modern American Drama and Contemporary Drama:
Sociological and Metaphysical Correlations
George P. Castellitto
21
Notes
Red Hook Notes
Timothy Dugan
29
Book Reviews
51
Methuen Drama Student Editions. Enoch Brater, Series Editor. United Kingdom: Methuen Drama, 2010.
All My Sons , Edited by Toby Zinman
Death of a Salesman, Edited by Enoch Brater
The Crucible , Edited by Susan C. W. Abbotson
A View From the Bridge , Edited by Stephen Marino
Performance Reviews
73
Death of a Salesman by Vivian Casper, All My Sons by Ramón Espejo-Romero, Annalisa Brugnoli, and Vivian Casper; The Crucible by Christine Sustek; All My Sons by Stephen Marino; Death of a Salesman by Ann C. Landenberger; After the Fall and “A Memory of Two Mondays” by Philip Wissbeck.
The Arthur Miller Society,
Message from the Society President,
American Literature Association
May 2010 Conference
Session and Abstracts,
Colloquy Announcement
89
Contributors
95
Cover Design by Addie Marino, based on Joseph Hirsch's drawing of Willy Loman, which appeared on the first edition of Death of a Salesman.
Volume VI Number 1 - Spring 2011
Contents
A Conversation with Christopher Bigsby
Interviewed by Stephen Marino
1
Notes
Insisting on the Truth:
Arthur Miller’s Adaptation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People
Benedikte Berntzen
17
A Selective, Classified International Bibliography Of Publications About the Drama and Fiction of Arthur Miller
Charles A. Carpenter
25
Book Reviews
127
Reinterpreting the Plays of Arthur Miller: An Approach Using Cultural Semiotics and New Historicism . Joshua Polster.
Critical Insights, Arthur Miller. Edited by Brenda Murphy.
Performance Reviews
131
Death of a Salesman by Graham Wolfe, The Crucible by Susan Abbotson,The Creation of the World and Other Business by Larry O’Brien, The Price by David Palmer, The Crucible by Anita Duneer.
The Arthur Miller Society
157
Contributors
159
Cover Design by Addie Marino, based on Joseph Hirsch's drawing of Willy Loman, which appeared on the first edition of Death of a Salesman.
Volume VII Number 1 & 2 - Fall 2012
Contents
—Editor’s Note: The Crucible : “The Tragedy of Heroic Resistance”
Why The Crucible is Important
1
A Reassessment of the “Goodness” of John Proctor: Fair or Foul?
Susan C. W. Abbotson
15
Tragedy, Integrity, Guilt, and Shame:
Understanding John Proctor
David Palmer
23
Beyond Plays of ‘Foolish’ Passions and Sympathies:
The Crucible as Marxist Drama
Joshua Polster
43
“The Meaning of a Life in the Wilderness”:
Wordsworth, Hawthorne, Miller
Matt Lorenz
63
A Conversation with David Richenthal on Working with Arthur Miller
Interview by Rita D. Jacobs
79
A Visit to Salem Village
Stephen Marino
93
Notes
Miller’s Use of “Doubting Thomas” in The Crucible
Frank R. Ardolino
107
“The Most Notorious Geck and Gull That Ever Invention Played On”
Joseph Masselli
112
The Price of Truth: Directing Death of a Salesman
Jeffrey D. Mason
121
The Legacy of Arthur Miller
Terry Otten
131
Book Reviews
143
Arthur Miller: A Descriptive Bibliography.
George W. Crandell
New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2011
Performance Reviews
147
A Symposium on Death of a Salesman by Joshua Polster, Stephen Marino,Joseph Kane, Joseph Masselli, Liam James Burton, Carlos Campo, Ben Graver, and Brian Mazeski; The Crucible by Susan Abbotson; The Crucibleby Todd Barry; A View From the Bridge by Christina Wilson, The Price by Philip Wissbeck; A View From the Bridge by Jane K. Dominik; All My Sons by Vivian Casper
The Arthur Miller Society:
A Message from the Society President,
American Literature Association May 2012 Conference Sessions,
The Fourth International Conference of America Drama and Theatre May 2012 Conference Session
195
Contributors
199
Cover design by Addie Marino, based on Joseph Hirsch's drawing of Willy Loman, which appeared on the first edition of Death of a Salesman.
Volume VIII Number 1 - Spring 2013
Contents
All My Sons: A Play
By Arthur Miller and Henrik Ibsen
Kurt Taroff
1
Robert Burns’s Mouse
In Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men
And Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Brian Reinking
15
Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night
and
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman:
The Magic Informing Both Plays
Samuel J. Bernstein
33
Death of a Salesman
and
Postwar Masculine Malaise
Grant Williams
53
Progress and Parody
in
Resurrection Blues
Richard Brucher
69
Book Reviews
85
Intertextuality in American Drama: Critical Essays on Eugene O’Neill, Susan Glaspell, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, and Other Playwrights
Edited by Drew Eisenhauer and Brenda Murphy.
North Carolina and London: McFarland and Company 2013.
Performance Reviews
89
All My Sons by Susan Abbotson; The Price by Peter Hays; Broken Glass by Philip Wissbeck; Death of a Salesman by Susan Abbotson
The Arthur Miller Society
Northeast Modern Language Association
March 2013 Conference Session,
American Literature Association
May 2013 Conference Sessions
105
Contributors
109
Cover design by Addie Marino, based on Joseph Hirsch's drawing of Willy Loman, which appeared on the first edition of Death of a Salesman.
Volume IX Number 1 & 2 - Spring & Fall 2014
Contents
Before and After the Fall
Jane K. Dominik
1
“Und ist ein Mensch gefallen”:
After the Fall and The Magic Flute
Frank Bergmann
17
Miller, O'Neill, Moral Despair, and Tragedy
David Palmer
27
A Conversation with Paul Libin
Interviewed by Iskritsa Ognianova
43
Arthur Miller: Self and Tragedy
Transcript of the Arthur Miller Society Special Session
MLA Convention January 9, 2014
57
Notes
Miller in Brazil
Kevin Brixton
79
Teaching Notes
Susan Abbotson
83
Performance Reviews
L.A. Theatre Works: The Arthur Miller Collection: The
Man Who Had All the Luck, by Chrystyna Dail and Marisa
Andrews; All My Sons by David Smith; Death of a
Salesman by Jon Tuttle, Death of a Salesman by Larry
O’Brien; The Crucible by Anita Duneer; A View from the
Bridge by Stephen Marino; After the Fall by Brenda
Murphy; Incident at Vichy by Susan C. W. Abbotson; The
Price by Jane K. Dominik; The Ride Down Mt. Morgan by
Neal Hebert; Broken Glass by Kate Egerton.
87
Death of a Salesman by David Palmer; Death of a
Salesman by Joshua E. Polster; The Price by David Smith;
A View from the Bridge by Christopher Bigsby; A View
from the Bridge by Philip Wissbeck; The Crucible by
Claire Gleitman; All My Sons by Peter Hays; The Crucible
by Christopher Bigsby.
127
The Arthur Miller Society
A Letter from the Society President
Arthur Miller Centennial, ALA Call for Papers
157
Contributors
163
Cover design by Addie Marino, based on Joseph Hirsch's drawing of Willy Loman, which appeared on the first edition of Death of a Salesman.
The Twelfth International Arthur Miller Conference celebrated the 100th anniversary of Arthur Miller’s birth in New York City on October 17, 1915. It was hosted at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, the neighborhood where Arthur Miller lived in the 1940s and 50s.
The conference offered discussions of the prodigious amount of dramatic and non-dramatic work that Miller produced in his stellar career.
The conference included a discussion of the artistic relationship between Arthur Miller and his wife Inge Morath, the world-renowned photojournalist.
The distinguished American Drama critic, Christopher Bigsby of the University of East Anglia, delivered the keynote address; Enoch Brater, the Kenneth T. Rowe Collegiate Professor of Dramatic Literature at the University of Michigan, delivered concluding remarks.
The conference also included panels of playwrights, theatre critics, actors, and directors. In addition, there were staged readings and performances of Miller’s work. The most exciting event was the world premiere staged reading of a new production of A View From the Bridge. This Muslim/Syrian version was directed by Brooke Ciardelli, the founding artistic director of Northern Stage in Vermont.
For further information, see the Arthur Miller Society website at: www.ibiblio.org/miller/.
Arthur Miller Journal Editor
Stephen Marino, Adjunct Professor
Education
BA & MA Queens College
Ph.D. Fordham University
Stephen Marino is the founding editor of The Arthur Miller Journal. He is former president of the Arthur Miller Society. His work on Arthur Miller has appeared in many journals and essay collections including Modern Drama, The South Atlantic Review, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography He is the editor of“The Salesman Has a Birthday”: Essays Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (University Press of America, 2000) and the author of A Language Study of Arthur Miller’s Plays, The Poetic in the Colloquial (Edwin Mellen Press, 2002). His interview with the celebrated actress, Joan Copeland, Arthur Miller’s sister, appeared in the spring 2008 issue of The Arthur Miller Journal. Marino’s essay on Miller’s poetic language appears in the collection of critical essays about Arthur Miller, Critical Insights (Salem Press 2010). He is the editor of the Methuen critical student edition of A View From the Bridge (2010). His interview with Miller’s biographer, Christopher Bigsby, is in the spring 2011 issue of The Arthur Miller Journal. His essay on the artistic connections between Thornton Wilder and Arthur Miller appears in the new collection, Intertextuality in American Drama. His new book, Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman / The Crucible A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism, was published by Macmillan/Palgrave in September 2015.
