Books written by Alan Ackerman
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Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America
They bequeathed to second-wave feminists an ambivalent legacy. In 1970, McCarthy wrote to Arendt of meeting fashionable people in London, “including the current Women's Lib idol, an absurd Australian giantess [Germaine Greer] ...
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Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America
Peter Ackerman, James Berkman, Richard Berkman, and Richard Rabinowitz read selections at formative stages and taught me to speak a more engaging and less “academic” language. I greatly appreciate the kind attention and insights of Dick ...
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A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller: All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View...
... the longshoreman whose protective love of his niece turns incestuous, more completely, I think, than any actor who's ever played it,' wrote Norman Nadel in the New York WorldTelegram and Sun (29 January 1965).
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Seeing Things: From Shakespeare to Pixar
14 Shattuck, The Hamlet ofEdwin Booth, 115, 117. Shattuck's book is my primary source for information on Booth's Hamlet. Shattuck has published Charles Clarke's record of the 1870 production along with the history of Booth's Hamlet, ...
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A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller: All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View...
The wealth of authoritative and clear commentary on each play, together with further questions that encourage comparison across Miller's work and related plays by other leading writers, ensures that this is the clearest and fullest guide to ...
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A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller: All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View...
The wealth of authoritative and clear commentary on each play, together with further questions that encourage comparison across Miller's work and related plays by other leading writers, ensures that this is the clearest and fullest guide to ...
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Reading Modern Drama
Taken together, these essays enter into an ongoing, fruitful debate about the terms 'modern' and 'drama' and build a much-needed bridge between literary studies and performance studies.
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Reader in Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Machine-Age. Comedy. (2009). Early in the 1920s, Viktor Shklovsky [...] suggested that the essence of Chaplin's humor is to be found in its mechanical quality, but he could not decide any more than Benjamin, why this should be so.14 The ...
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Reader in Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Students of literature and theatre will find this collection an invaluable and accessible guide to writing from Plato and Aristotle through to the twenty-first century, in which special attention has been paid to writings since the start of ...