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Arthur Miller’s Work in the Romanian Culture’s Sphere of Interest

Arthur Miller în sfera de interes a culturii române

Author(s): Rodica Pioariu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2011

Keywords: social drama; impact on Romanian culture; individual alienation and loss of confidence,breaking of traditional patterns of thinking and living; need of responsibility; human solidarity,Romanian critical reactions; possible solutions.

Our paper intends to provide an analysis of the main co-ordinates that define Arthur Miller’ s dramatic work focusing especially on the reaction of the Romanian literary critique to this original creation, so widely appreciated throughout the world.We will try to find out the reasons why Miller’s plays have drawn the attention of so many people-critics,writers, readers or spectators-for whom culture is not only an ideal ,but also an indispensable way of living. The Romanian analysts and critics who dealt with American drama ,in general, and Arthur Miller’s in particular-such as B. Elvin, A.E. Baconski,A. Baleanu, Mircea Ivanescu, Carol Isac or Dina Georgescu - identified the key elements responsible for the tremendous impact this social realistic drama had on its readers and spectators alike.They point out the fact that the social problem doubled by a private, individual one is prevalent throughout Miller’s dramatic creation .Each particular play is in fact illustrative of one fundamental issue the modern American society in the 50s and 60s had to face.Its most famous slogans of liberty,dignity or humanity are questioned and seriously doubted by the American playwright.In their opinion the realistic orientation of this dramatic creation is meant to reveal the true man-society relationship in order to finally consolidate human solidarity and social cohesion with a view to avoid alienation and awake responsibility . By this social popular type of drama Arthur Miller not only renewed the subject matters and the means of dramatic expression in accordance with the modern contemporary state of mind but he also changed the traditional sources of inspiration.Thus, common, ordinary people become his favourite protagonists whose individual dramas are relevant for the modern man in general and the society at large. As it was widely accepted the force of his talent seems to reside in an exceptional ability of penetrating the metaphysical implications of the social and cultural problems society is confronted with.By scrutinizing human mind and experience Miller aspires to help the individual understand man’ s destiny and his own position in the world better.That is why Miller undertakes a lucid severe analysis of his epoch revealing the crisis of a whole generation and the state of mind of an entire society that witnesses the breaking down of a traditional system of values quickly replaced by false, artificial ones. It is his way of awaking consciences, helping people get more awareness and become more responsible both at individual and social level.Mixing symbols with realistic observation,Arthur Miller manages to convince people that life is meaningful and worth living in spite of its difficulties and inherent errors.

Which Is Witch? Exit Women/Enter Saints in Arthur Miller’s Crucible

Which Is Witch? Exit Women/Enter Saints in Arthur Miller’s Crucible

Author(s): Sélima Lejri / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2011

Keywords: Arthur Miller; The Crucible; Puritanism; scapegoating; exclusion; inclusion; witchcraft; daemonism; hysteria; patriarchy; feminism

This paper explores The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s dramatized version of the 1692 Salem witch-hunt, from a psycho-sociological point of view, using mainly the Girardian theoretical notions of scapegoating and sacrificial crisis as expounded in his seminal work The Violence and the Sacred (1972). The snowballing effect of paranoia in Salem is regarded, in the first part, as a means for the hide-bound and male chauvinistic community to exclude non-conventional women; and in the second part, as an outlet for the latter to challenge oppression and an opportunity to assert themselves within the community. Now given entire credit by the court of law, the female outcasts use victimization through daemonic possession as a suitable stalking horse to grow in heroic and saintly stature and gain back admission, if not vengefully attain absolute power in the community that has hitherto oppressed them.

Contradictii intre teoria dreptatii a lui J. Rawls si critica marxista a lui R. Miller

Contradictions between theory of justice and the marxist critique of Miller

Author(s): Vladucu Andrei / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2012

Keywords: theory of justice; original position; difference principle; exploitation; marxist criticism

In this papper I discuss the Marxist critique that Richard Miller brings to John Rawls, Theory of Justice. The starting point of this criticism is rawlsian innovative concept – the difference principle, which justifies inequalities in marxist vision of the society. With reference to Miller’s critique I will try to highlight its structure, argumentative line, coherence and posed inaccuracies. The question that will give an answer is whether Marxist criticism can relate to how Rawls builds his theory of justice

Picturing Daisy: Narrative in Henry James’s Daisy Miller

Picturing Daisy: Narrative in Henry James’s Daisy Miller

Author(s): Ileana Alexandra Orlich / Language(s): English / Issue: 20/2009

Keywords: ekphrasis; aestheticism; allegory; aesthetic; scenery; international.

With a background resembling both an abstract stage and a tapestry Daisy Miller is at first glance a seemingly facile story. There is certainly a sense of open, stage-like space surrounding the main characters and their performative actions, which resemble the blurred but vivid forms of live figures frozen in the aesthetic stillness of the scenic foreground in Vevey, Switzerland and Rome. In spite of the story's accessibility, however, its stage seems to be set, scene after scene, for veiled allusions, sustained imagery, and allegorical meanings. Under the guise of a story about a young American girl's attempt to establish and assert her sense of identity in the Old World, Daisy Miller is also an encoded text whose strong allegorical dimension yields rich insights into James's intention to imagine in his own fiction the artistic possibilities embedded in the fin de siecle's aestheticist agenda.

The Portraits of Losers in Arthur Miller’s Writings

Portréty zúfalých existencií v tvorbe Arthura Millera

Author(s): L'ubica Krénová / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 01/2010

The authoress perceives Arthur Miller’s emergence on the Czech and the Slovak theatrical scenes against the backdrop of existentialist philosophy proliferating in the 1960s. Miller’s most staged Death of a Salesman (1949) and the least staged After the Fall (1963), are understood to be a representative existentialist arch over Miller‘s dramatic creation. Miller’s initial inspiration for the plays was derived from Jaspers, according to whom the self-creation of Man explicates his/her existence in two ways, under extreme life circumstances (Man is confronted with himself/herself) and in communication with others. In Loman, the central character of the Death of a Salesman, Man’s existence is materialized directly, under extreme life circumstances. The vital code here is Man’s failure. However, only in a true fall, Man will experience his/her existence, thus consuming his/her option of existence. In the case of Quentin, the main protagonist of After the Fall, Man’s existence is materialized through communication, in contact with others (mother, father, wife Louise, wife Maggie, incidental female acquaintances Felice and Holga, colleagues from his law firm). “Progressively minded“ American dramatist Arthur Miller, as referred to by socialist theatre dramaturgy, was smoothly introduced to Slovak and Czech theatrical scenes. His Death of a Salesman was constantly given green light, however, his After the Fall, which was ideologically less usable, was staged only twice in the Slovak National Theatre, Bratislava and once by the National Theatre, Prague; both productions taking place in a decade of “political thawing“. Repeatedly, the Death of a Salesman was a source of blunt criticism of a socially unfair capitalist society. The authoress concludes her paper by an overview of the stagings of the plays by Slovak and Czech theatres.

Family Values in Crisis – Arthur Miller’s Perspective

Criza valorilor familiale – o perspectivă milleriană

Author(s): Elena Ciortescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2013

Keywords: family; society; betrayal; depression

In 1991, Miller wrote two plays which dealt with what appeared to be an issue related to the private sphere of the individual. However, not only that The Ride down Mt. Morgan as well as The Last Yankee turned out to be more than two plays based on private failure but they managed to survive time and stir emotion in the audience even today, more than twenty years later, due to the powerful issues they stage. Family rupture is an issue today as much as in the 1990s; its deepest causes are to be found at the socio-economic level to the same extent as its consequences determine the structure of our society. The topic had haunted Miller for most of his career and formed the focus of some of his most famous plays: All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Price (1967), The American Clock (1980). Arthur Miller’s work has proven timeless and this is also due to the topics he addressed in his 1991 plays – The Ride down Mt. Morgan and The Last Yankee.

Paris in Tropique du Cancer by Henry Miller

Paris dans le Tropique du Cancer de Henry Miller

Author(s): Vassiliki Lalagianni / Language(s): French / Issue: 3/1998

Keywords: Paris in Tropique du Cancer by Henry Miller

Paris dans le Tropique du Cancer de Henry Miller

Theatrical Stratification Message Arthur Miller

Kazališna slojevitost poruka Arthura MIllera

Author(s): Jakov Amidžić,Srđan Vukadinović / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 3-4/2015

Keywords: Theatre Stratification; Messages; Contention; Engagement; Theatrical Challenge; Classic Dramatic Literature

In the fifteenth year of the third millennium is the life of one of the most important american playwrights Arthur Miller. Very engaged literature Miller ranks among the classics of world drama heritage, but also the whole literary scene. Topics to be dealt with Arthur Miller in mid-twentieth century are very topical in the early decades of the third millennium. The basis of his theatrical layering makes artistic stood up against violence, primarily those whom conduct of government during this period. Particularly significant was his appearance against the+ ruling elites in America at the time of McCarthyism. On the other side of Arthur Miller’s welcome on theater stages and the fifteenth years of the third millennium, in the period of the migrant crisis that is shaking Europe to its reading on economic migrants as is the case in his play “View from the Bridge.” The most famous drama by Arthur Miller as: “All My Sons” (1947), “Death of a Salesman” (1949), “The Witches of Salem” (1953) and others, with whom acquired a cult place in American and world theater. Miller’s lyrics are powerful, comprehensive and layered. They represent an enormous challenge for the theater artists who “removing” layer by layer penetrate deeply into the substance involved dramatic story.

Review of: Miller, Timothz S. and John W. Nesbitt. 2014.

Review of: Miller, Timothz S. and John W. Nesbitt. 2014.

Author(s): Tomasz Labuk / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2016

REALITY VERSUS THE AMERICAN DREAM IN ARTHUR MILLER’S PLAYS

REALITY VERSUS THE AMERICAN DREAM IN ARTHUR MILLER’S PLAYS

Author(s): Georgiana-Elena Dilă / Language(s): English / Issue: XV/2014

Keywords: dream; reality; values; idea; stories.

Arthur Miller‟s desire for a believable plot extended to the idea that stories about men and their ordinary problems should be exposed for the public to analyse from different spectres and so he found great inspiration in everyday reality, which helped him shape characters willing to embrace contemporary values and principles that moulded their developing personalities. The American Dream stands out as one of Miller‟s most popular topics as it transforms his protagonists into creators of worlds paralleling reality, feeding their imagination and helping them escape real life, as times change and people become more self-absorbed, focusing on ideals and feeding on the desire of achievement.

Conceptual Dependence of Verisimilitude Vindicated. A Farewell to Miller’s Argument

Conceptual Dependence of Verisimilitude Vindicated. A Farewell to Miller’s Argument

Author(s): Jiří Raclavský / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2008

There were published just two replies to my recent paper (Raclavský 2007; CDV for short), namely that of Miller (Miller 2008; NMH) and Taliga (Taliga 2008; WVS). The two critical papers contain many points I consider faulty or being simply a gross misunderstanding of CDV. This admissibly long (thus rather short) version of my reaction concentrates only on the most important matters.

Conceptual Dependence of Verisimilitude (Against Miller’s Translation Invariance Demand)

Conceptual Dependence of Verisimilitude (Against Miller’s Translation Invariance Demand)

Author(s): Jiří Raclavský / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2007

The problem of verisimilitude (or more properly: truthlikeness) is, no doubt, one of the fundamental problems in the philosophy of science. As Popper noticed, scientific theories are not true (or rather false) simpliciter but they are in some distance from the truth, the actual state-of-affairs. Thus the ability to determine (to count) exactly the likeness to truth of this or that theory is really important, for otherwise we will not be sure which theory is better than another one or which theory is to be improved in order to be closer to the truth, etc. In his “O jazykovej závislosti niektorých ocenení pravdeblízkosti” (Taliga 2007), Miloš Taliga shows that logicians’ proposals concerning the method of verisimilitude counting have been under David Miller’s heavy attack for more than thirty years.

Еrwin Miller: Death on leave. А memoir on the Jasenovac death camp

Еrwin Miller: Death on leave. А memoir on the Jasenovac death camp

Author(s): Krinka Vidaković-Petrov / Language(s): English / Issue: 165/2018

Keywords: World War Two;Yugoslavia;Independent State of Croatia;Jasenovac;Holocaust;memoirs and testimonies;presentation of camp experience;

This paper deals with a memoir on the Jasenovac death camp, the extraordinary killing site on the territory of Yugoslavia, located in the wartime Independent State of Croatia. The first task was to reconstruct the biography of the author, Erwin Miller (1922–1991), member of the Jewish community of Vinkovci, and then to study the genesis of his memoir (two published versions in Serbo-Croatian, both edited i.e. incomplete), his motives for writing about Jasenovac four decades after the event, the structure and other features of the narrative, and to position his memoir in the context of published testimonies/memoirs of other Jasenovac survivors in a diachronical perspective.

Krzysztof Miller, 13 and One Wars. The True History of a War Correspondent

Krzysztof Miller, 13 wojen i jedna. Prawdziwa historia reportera wojennego

Author(s): Agnieszka Obaid / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2013

G. F. Miller (Müller)—the First Archaeologist in Russia and the First Rector of Saint Petersburg University

G. F. Miller (Müller)—the First Archaeologist in Russia and the First Rector of Saint Petersburg University

Author(s): Igor L. Tikhonov / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

Keywords: archaeology; Miller (Müller); rector; Siberia; St. Petersburg University;

Gerhard Friedrich Miller (Müller) was a graduate of the University of Leipzig. In November 1725 he arrived in Russia, where he spent the rest of his life—first as an adjunct, then as a professor and a conference secretary of the Academy of Sciences. Since 1732 he published Sammlung Russischer Geschichte—the first Russian periodical publication on history. During a decade-long expedition to Southern Siberia, Miller worked out instructions for the study of archaeological sites and the classification of barrows. Miller was one of the first to realize the historical significance of archaeological sites and claimed that the main goal in the study of antiquities is to explain the ancient history of the inhabitants of the territory. Miller’s activity was connected with the formation of a truly scientific approach to the antiquities. He was the first to write scientific works in Russian specifically devoted to the antiquities, which makes him the first Russian archaeologist. In 1747, the President of St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences appointed Miller rector of the university. As a rector, he composed a catalogue of lectures, introduced required additional training in geography and arithmetic, and promoted teaching of foreign languages (French and German). For teaching the German language, he invited his brother to Russia. He made up chronological tables on history for students. Besides that, Miller prepared a draft of the new university regulations “following the example of European universities”. The project provided autonomy, the right to award academic degrees and improved the social status of professors. However, this draft was not adopted. Miller was serious about his responsibilities and took care of the students, trying to supply them with the necessary books and teaching aids, and incentives for the best students. He paid much attention to students’ discipline and developed a system of penalties for misconduct. Most of the students who graduated the University at that time were left to work at the Academy of Sciences. In 1750, Miller was dismissed from the post of the rector. One of the reasons was his conflict with M. V. Lomonosov and the director of the Academy, G. N. Teplov.

Roberts-Miller, P. (2017). Demagoguery and Democracy (Demagógia a demokracia)

Roberts-Miller, P. (2017). Demagoguery and Democracy (Demagógia a demokracia)

Author(s): Klaudia Lencsésová / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

Review of: Roberts-Miller, P. (2017). Demagoguery and Democracy (Demagógia a demokracia). New York: The Experiment. 2017. 135 pages. ISBN 978-1-61519-408-7

Selling Short the American Dream: Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

Selling Short the American Dream: Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

Author(s): Eduard Vlad,Bianca Ionescu-Tănăsescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

Keywords: American dream; the Salem witch trials; tragedy of the common man;

The 1950s and early 1960s in the US are usually seen as an age of conformity. Mainstream America is affluent and vacillates between indulgence in consumerism and the anxiety that the impending confrontation with the Soviet Union produces, considering the possibility of Mutually Assured Destruction by nuclear weapons. This anxiety is also linked to such forms of response to the ideological rival as the anti-Communist witch trials of the McCarthy years. The current article places Arthur Miller in the context of his age, among the minority of artists and thinkers that are critical of the Establishment culture which manufactures consent. Two notable illustrations of his artistic discontent are The Crucible, a play which is a more than indirect allusion to the anti-Communist hysteria of the time, and Death of a Salesman. The latter play provides the scope for a discussion of the inability of some ordinary citizens to cope with the elusive American Dream.

LUCASTA MILLER. KEATS: A BRIEF LIFE IN NINE POEMS AND ONE EPIGRAPH

LUCASTA MILLER. KEATS: A BRIEF LIFE IN NINE POEMS AND ONE EPIGRAPH

Author(s): Sławomir Wącior / Language(s): English / Issue: 11/2021

Keywords: John Keats; Romanticism; English poet;

Review of: Sławomir Wącior - Lucasta Miller. Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epigraph. Vintage Books, Jonathan Cape, 2021, 368 pp., ISBN: 9781787331617

FROM KELOĞLAN TO BEARDLESS MILLER: THE DEVELOPMENT OF MATURE MASCULINITY

KELOĞLAN’DAN KÖSE DEĞİRMENCİYE: KÂMİL ERKEKLİĞİN İNŞASI

Author(s): Seda Demiralp / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 40/2022

Keywords: Keloğlan; trickster; Jung; masculinity; individuation;

Embracing a Jungian approach, this article explores the Keloğlan stories’ concealed content about an alternative, mature masculinity. The two stories interpreted in this article consider the male ego’s journey of individuation by engaging repressed psychic content. This allows the emergence of the mature masculine in the form of the trickster archetype, represented by the “Beardless Miller.” In the beginning the trickster may not appear as a positive figure but as we know him better we develop a different opinion. The trickster is humorous, spontaneous, pluralist, and practical rather than fearless, heroic, rigid or traditional. Beardless Miller enters Keloğlan’s life as an antagonistic character but eventually we see a bond developing between the two. In the end Keloğlan starts resembling the Beardless Miller. This is when his transformation becomes complete. As such, Keloğlan stories present an alternative, humble, but powerful, masculinity. Further, Keloğlan also shows that, despite the patriarchal “ruling culture” in Anatolia, a non-patriarchal form of masculinity has been present in the more “residual cultures” of the region for aeons.

THE MEANING OF THE PIANOPART IN THE CYCLE OF INSTRUMENTAL TRIOS INO BY V. A. ROTARU

ЗНАЧЕНИЕ ФОРTЕПИАННОЙ ПАРТИИ В ЦИКЛЕ ИНСТРУМЕНТАЛЬНЫХ ТРИО ИНО В. А РОТАРУ

Author(s): Natalia Djalilova / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 2 (43)/2022

Keywords: V. Rotaru; instrumental trio; chamber instrumental music; piano; neo-folklorism;

The article analyzes the chamber instrumental piano trios created by V. Rotaru at the beginning of the century, which make up the cycle under the general name INO. The theoretical and interpretative aspects of the music, the history of the creation are considered in detail, some practical recommendations are given. The study aims to fill in the gaps in the field of research into the composer’s chamber instrumental music and draw attention to the important role of the piano in his work in general and in the presented Cycle in particular.