Issues of Criticism and Authorship in Arthur Miller's All My Sons : A Bakhtinian Reading

ECU Author/Contributor (non-ECU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)

Heritage Barbara Salvadori (Creator)

Institution

East Carolina University (ECU )

Web Site: http://www.ecu.edu/lib/

Advisor

Thomas E. Douglass

Abstract: All my Sons may not be Miller's most known work today but it is the play that brought him recognition as a playwright. Since its first production in 1947 critics have assessed the play's content and characters through Arthur Miller's words and biography. This kind of approach elevated Miller to the status of Author-God consequently transforming the play into a monologic work. Mikhail Bakhtin however reconsiders the notion of authorship proposing a model of dialogic author and heteroglossic text. In view of these issues this thesis analyzes All My Sons through the lens of Bakhtin's theory especially his argument regarding authorship and the philosophy of the act. 

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Publication

Thesis

Date: 2012

Keywords

Literature, All My Sons, Authorship, Dialogism

Subjects

Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005. All my sons--Criticism and interpretation

Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhailovich), 1895-1975

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