The Crucible and the Production of Fear in the Contemporary World: The Future and Persistence in Culture
Although Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible (1953) was written centuries after (‘post’) the events in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, it was through this play that we could relate to those events. In this sense, the play was ‘before’ (pre-) the past itself. The dynamic of preposterousness serves, I ar...
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2024-12-01
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| Series: | American, British and Canadian Studies Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2024-0006 |