Alan L Ackerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1708797 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan L Ackerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan L |
| FAMILY NAME | Ackerman |
| SIGNATURE | ACKERMAN A L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Just Words
In an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, including 'and' and 'the.' Hellman immediately filed a libel suit, charging that McCarthy's comment was not a legitimate conversation on public issues but an attack on her reputation. This intriguing book offers a many-faceted examination of Hellman's infamous suit and explores what it tells us about t…
Arthur Miller's America
Reviewed by: Arthur Miller's America: Theater and Culture in a Time of Change Alan Ackerman Arthur Miller's America: Theater and Culture in a Time of Change. Edited by Enoch Brater. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005; pp. xi + 268. $55.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. This collection of essays is the culminating work of a conference held at the University of Michigan in 2000 to mark the eighty-fifth birthday of Arthur Miller and his long associ…
Visualizing Hamlet's Ghost
Plays have always represented a reality that is invisible, whether psychological, biological, metaphysical, or theological. A key problem for the drama since Shakespeare has been to represent or express human interiority on the stage. Understanding what is meant by interiority, however, is also, more generally, a historical problem. The premise of this essay is that a widespread re-imagining of the subject in the early decades of the nineteenth c…
Visualizing Hamlet's Ghost
Plays have always represented a reality that is invisible, whether psychological, biological, metaphysical, or theological. A key problem for the drama since Shakespeare has been to represent or express human interiority on the stage. Understanding what is meant by interiority, however, is also, more generally, a historical problem. The premise of this essay is that a widespread re-imagining of the subject in the early decades of the nineteenth c…
Visualizing Hamlet's Ghost
Plays have always represented a reality that is invisible, whether psychological, biological, metaphysical, or theological. A key problem for the drama since Shakespeare has been to represent or express human interiority on the stage. Understanding what is meant by interiority, however, is also, more generally, a historical problem. The premise of this essay is that a widespread re-imagining of the subject in the early decades of the nineteenth c…
Arthur Miller's America
Reviewed by: Arthur Miller's America: Theater and Culture in a Time of Change Alan Ackerman Arthur Miller's America: Theater and Culture in a Time of Change. Edited by Enoch Brater. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005; pp. xi + 268. $55.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. This collection of essays is the culminating work of a conference held at the University of Michigan in 2000 to mark the eighty-fifth birthday of Arthur Miller and his long associ…
Just Words
In an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, including 'and' and 'the.' Hellman immediately filed a libel suit, charging that McCarthy's comment was not a legitimate conversation on public issues but an attack on her reputation. This intriguing book offers a many-faceted examination of Hellman's infamous suit and explores what it tells us about t…
Philosophy (3 works) · Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · 20th century (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Classics (1 works) · Classics (1 works) · Dick Cavett show (Television program) (1 works)