@article{ART001405328},
author={Sung Hee Choi},
title={Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues: ‘After’ the Tragedy},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2009},
volume={22},
number={3},
pages={113-142}
TY - JOUR
AU - Sung Hee Choi
TI - Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues: ‘After’ the Tragedy
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2009
VL - 22
IS - 3
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 113
EP - 142
SN - 1226-3397
AB - Resurrection Blues, Arthur Miller’s last play published in the new millenium, is one of the most unconventional and apocalyptic of all his plays, in which Miller’s recurring themes and dramaturgy deconstruct and transform. In this play we witness the historical conditions and cultural context that make Miller abandon his “Tragedy of Common Man,” but at the same time his desperate struggle to grasp the possibility of redemption in the media-driven age of simulacra. Miller savages deceptive spectacles of violence crafted by media of which inundant images of pain only lead to deadening of our feelings and its collusion with corrupted political power. Blending political satire with elegiac blues, the play also laments the missed chance for the characters to risk believing in a new possibility of spiritual renewal/redemption as the ‘potential’ Messiah disappears from the stage, leaving the world in dead emptiness. Starting with Raymond Williams’ evaluation of Miller's plays as “a revival of liberal tragedy,” this essay also traces Miller’s shifted interest from a tragedy as a fixed genre to tragic passions “in flux” and thereby confirms Miller's aspiration for an ultimate tragedy to be completed by audiences in the real world as well as the continuing validity of tragedy in the new millenium.
KW - Arthur Miller;Raymond Williams;modern tragedy;Resurrection Blues;Simulacra;redemption;tragedy in flux
DO -
UR -
ER -
Sung Hee Choi. (2009). Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues: ‘After’ the Tragedy. Journal of Modern English Drama, 22(3), 113-142.
Sung Hee Choi. 2009, "Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues: ‘After’ the Tragedy", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.22, no.3 pp.113-142.
Sung Hee Choi "Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues: ‘After’ the Tragedy" Journal of Modern English Drama 22.3 pp.113-142 (2009) : 113.
Sung Hee Choi. Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues: ‘After’ the Tragedy. 2009; 22(3), 113-142.
Sung Hee Choi. "Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues: ‘After’ the Tragedy" Journal of Modern English Drama 22, no.3 (2009) : 113-142.
Sung Hee Choi. Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues: ‘After’ the Tragedy. Journal of Modern English Drama, 22(3), 113-142.
Sung Hee Choi. Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues: ‘After’ the Tragedy. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2009; 22(3) 113-142.
Sung Hee Choi. Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues: ‘After’ the Tragedy. 2009; 22(3), 113-142.
Sung Hee Choi. "Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues: ‘After’ the Tragedy" Journal of Modern English Drama 22, no.3 (2009) : 113-142.
