Arthur Miller's New York : visions of the city / Stephen Marino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marino, Stephen, author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005--Criticism and interpretation.

Miller, Arthur.

New York (N.Y.)--In literature.

New York (N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Methuen Drama, 2026.

Summary:

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the 20th century, brought to life with images from Miller's time and today. Readers of the work of Arthur Miller will be familiar with the presence of NYC in much of his work. In Arthur Miller's New York Stephen Marino offers a rich, panoramic study of NYC across all of Miller's oeuvre, exploring how Miller transformed the defining experiences of his youth and early adulthood - formed on the streets and in the neighborhoods of the New York boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn - into art. A crucial component of his creative DNA, NYC figures prominently in Miller's dramatic work: Death of a Salesman, A Memory of Two Mondays, A View From the Bridge, After the Fall, The Price, The American Clock, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, Broken Glass, and Mr. Peter's Connections all have settings in which the characters' interactions with the cityscape significantly determine the events of the plays. Miller was also a prodigious fiction writer, and New York features in his two longer works of fiction: his only novel, Focus, is set in the borough of Queens and boldly confronts the issue of American anti-Semitism, and the novella, Homely Girl, A Life, creates a sweeping landscape of time and emotion in Manhattan. Many of Miller's short stories depict New York settings that are catalysts for the main characters' conflicts. An evocative set of images from Miller's times and from the present period bring the character of New York City into sharp relief and and trace its evolution over a century of change.

Contents:

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Brooklyn Plays: Death of a Salesman, A View the Bridge, The American Clock, Broken Glass

Chapter 2: The Manhattan Works: A Memory of Two Mondays, After the Fall, The Price, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, Mr. Peter's Connections

Chapter 3: Focus: A Novel about Queens

Chapter 4: Short Stories of the Boroughs

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Marino, Stephen. Arthur Miller's New York

ISBN:

1350524794

9781350524798

OCLC:

1520507227