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Every day, in some part of the world, an Arthur Miller play is
performed. In the nearly 60 years since its first production,
Pulitzer Prize-winning "Death of a Salesman" has become a classic,
a staple of school anthologies of American literature and of acting
companies' repertoires. It has received worldwide productions,
whether as a study of parent-child relationships, as in its
landmark 1976 production directed by Miller in Beijing, or as a
critique of Western capitalism and has been filmed once for
television and twice for movies. This guide provides a
comprehensive critical introduction to the play, giving students an
overview of the background and context; detailed analysis of the
play's structure, style, characters etc; analysis of key production
issues and choices; overview of the performance history from the
first performances in 1949 to recent productions and film
adaptations; and an annotated guide to further reading highlighting
key critical approaches.It offers accessible, informative critical
introductions to modern plays for students in both
Theatre/Performance Studies and English. Offering up-to-date
coverage of a broad range of key plays throughout modern drama, the
guides include accounts of performance history, production
analysis, screen adaptations and summaries of important critical
approaches and debates.
A master of short story, novel, and nonfiction prose, Ernest
Hemingway has been the subject of countless books, articles, and
biographies. The Nobel-prize winning author and his work continue
to interest academics, whose studies of his personal life are
frequently intertwined with examinations of his writing. In Fifty
Years of Hemingway Criticism, noted scholar Peter L. Hays has
assembled a career-spanning collection of essays that explore the
many facets of Hemingway-his life, his contemporaries, and his
creative output. Although Hays has published on other writers,
Hemingway has been his main research interest, and this selection
constitutes five decades of criticism. Arranged by subject matter,
these essays focus on the novels The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to
Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, as well
as the short stories "The Undefeated," "The Killers," "Soldier's
Home," and "A Clean Well-Lighted Place." Other chapters explore
Hemingway's relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald; teaching
Hemingway in the classroom; and comparing Hemingway's work to
writers such as Eugene O'Neill, Ford Madox Ford, and William
Faulkner. When first published, some of these essays offered
original views and insights that have since become standard
interpretations, making them invaluable to readers. Easily
accessible by both general readers and academic scholars, Fifty
Years of Hemingway Criticism is an essential collection on one of
America's greatest writers.
This thorough examination of the roots and motivations for U.S.
national security space policy provides an essential foundation for
considering current space security issues. During the Cold War era,
space was an important arena for the clashing superpowers, yet the
United States government chose not to station weapons there. Today,
new space security dynamics are evolving that reflect the growing
global focus upon the broad potential contributions of space
capabilities to global prosperity and security. Space and Security:
A Reference Handbook examines how the United States has developed
and implemented policies designed to use space capabilities to
enhance national security, providing a clear and complete
evaluation of the origins and motivations for U.S. national
security space policies and activities. The author explains the
Eisenhower Administration's quest to develop high-technology
intelligence collection platforms to open up the closed Soviet
state, and why it focused on developing a legal regime to
legitimize satellite overflight for the purposes of gathering
intelligence. Provides a succinct analysis of key current national
security space issues that includes all key national security space
policy statements from 1955 to the present day Presents an
extensive chronology of events from the mid-20th century to the
present Contains 45 biographies of politicians, NASA officials, and
military personnel who have shaped U.S. space policy Includes a
descriptive directory of government and private organizations,
including advocacy groups, government agencies, and advisory
committees
Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism is the first book
to examine the connections linking two major American writers of
the twentieth century, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway. In
twelve critical essays, accompanied by a foreword from Wharton
scholar Laura Rattray and a critical introduction by volume editor
Lisa Tyler, contributors reveal the writers' overlapping contexts,
interests, and aesthetic techniques. Thematic sections highlight
modernist trends found in each author's works. To begin, Peter Hays
and Ellen Andrews Knodt argue for reading Wharton as a modernist
writer, noting how her works feature characteristics that critics
customarily credit to a younger generation of writers, including
Hemingway. Since Wharton and Hemingway each volunteered for
humanitarian medical service in World War I, then drew upon their
experiences in subsequent literary works, Jennifer Haytock and
Milena Radeva-Costello analyze their powerful perspectives on the
cataclysmic conflict traditionally viewed as marking the advent of
modernism in literature. In turn, Cecilia Macheski and Sirpa
Salenius consider the authors' passionate representations of Italy,
informed by personal sojourns there, in which they observed its
beautiful landscapes and culture, its liberating contrast with the
United States, and its period of fascist politics. Linda
Wagner-Martin, Lisa Tyler, and Anna Green focus on the complicated
gender politics embedded in the works of Wharton and Hemingway, as
evidenced in their ideas about female agency, sexual liberation,
architecture, and modes of transportation. In the collection's
final section, Dustin Faulstick, Caroline Chamberlin Hellman, and
Parley Ann Boswell address suggestive intertextualities between the
two authors with respect to the biblical book of Ecclesiastes,
their serialized publications in Scribner's Magazine, and their
affinities with the literary and cinematic tradition of noir.
Together, the essays in this engaging collection prove that
comparative studies of Wharton and Hemingway open new avenues for
understanding the pivotal aesthetic and cultural movements central
to the development of American literary modernism.
Every day, in some part of the world, an Arthur Miller play is
performed.In the nearly 60 years since its first production, the
Pulitzer Prizewinning Death of a Salesman has been become a
classic, a staple of school anthologies of American literature and
of acting companies' repertoires. It has received worldwide
productions, whether as a study of parent-child relationships, as
in its landmark 1976 production directed by Miller in Beijing, or
as a critique of Western capitalism and has been filmed once for
television and twice for movies.
Spacepower for a New Millennium examines how military space
activities might best contribute to United States national security
by analyzing key current and future issues such as missile defense
and how to organize for military space. Composed of essays written
by eminent participants in the realms of space, politics, academia,
and national security, this book focuses on the issues raised in
U.S. Space Command's 1998 report, Long Range Plan: Implementing
USSPACECOM Vision for 2020. The book is divided into four parts:
current military space issues, space and military defense,
organizing for military space missions and future military space
missions.
ong valued by instructors of courses in political science,
international relations, military affairs, and American national
security, "American Defense Policy" remains the most complete
introduction to the vital security issues facing the United States.
Thoroughly updated to include the challenges of post-Cold War
security, the seventh edition returns to the book's classic format
of organizing essential readings around a defense policy process
model. Part 1 introduces the subject and establishes the context
for studying American defense policy making; Part 2 examines the
roles of the chief players in policy formation and implementation;
Part 3 outlines the various processes involved in policy
formulation; and Parts 4 and 5 address current U.S. defense
policies, reviewing excerpts from key defense policy statements and
assessing the likely challenges for future policy makers.
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