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Author | : Austin E. Quigley |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2015-03-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400872405 |
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In spite of steady growth in popularity, Pinter's plays have continued to elude adequate critical appraisal. Considering the last decade's scholarship, Austin E. Quigley attributes the impasse in Pinter criticism to the failure of Pinter's readers to appreciate the diversity of ways in which language can transmit information. This explanation places recent commentaries in a new light and enables the author to take a fresh approach to the plays themselves. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Peter Raby |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2009-03-19 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1139828398 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Harold Pinter was one of the world's leading and most controversial writers, and his impact and influence continues to grow. This Companion examines the wide range of Pinter's work - his writing for theatre, radio, television and screen, and also his highly successful work as a director and actor. Substantially updated and revised, this second edition covers the many developments in Pinter's career since the publication of the first edition, including his Nobel Prize for Literature win in 2005, his appearance in Samuel Beckett's play Krapp's Last Tape and recent productions of his plays. Containing essays written by both academics and leading practitioners, the volume places Pinter's writing within the critical and theatrical context of his time and considers its reception worldwide. Including three new essays, new production photographs, five updated and revised chapters and an extended chronology, the Companion provides fresh perspectives on Pinter's work.
Author | : Austin E. Quigley |
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Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1975 |
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Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1992 |
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Author | : Susan Mandala |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351877240 |
Download Twentieth-Century Drama Dialogue as Ordinary Talk Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this book, Susan Mandala offers a series of in-depth investigations into how the dialogue of four modern plays 'works' with respect to the pragmatic and discoursal norms postulated for ordinary conversation. After an account of the often-heated debates between linguists and critics concerning the analysis of drama dialogue as talk, four plays are considered: Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, Arnold Wesker's Roots, Terence Rattigan's In Praise of Love, and Alan Ayckbourn's Just Between Ourselves. For readers unfamiliar with linguistic approaches to talk, a chapter outlining the major frameworks used in the analysis of the plays is also included. By considering both linguistic and literary perspectives, this book extends the boundaries of traditional criticism and shows how the linguistic study of conversation can contribute to our understanding of dramatic dialogue.
Author | : Leslie Kane |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838631874 |
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An analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms with the holocaust and its impact on post-war German society.
Author | : Saumya Rajan |
Publisher | : Partridge Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2018-07-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1543702260 |
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The book reconnoiters the New World Order of Postmodernism in five plays The Room (1957), The Birthday Party (1957), The Caretaker (1960), The Homecoming (1965) and Celebration (2000) of Harold Pinter. With culturally structured, incomprehensibly manipulated, dual and fragmented characters, Harold Pinter analyses the ambiguities of political system. It is perhaps the System that forcibly drags Stanley to a world of systems in The Birthday Party. The situation of Ruth in The Homecoming clearly indicates the inevitable grip of this System. The last play Celebration overtly ridicules the very political system we approve of wherein the strategy consultants and the corporate people define the organized mechanism of this SYSTEM! The internalization of power which the power structures of societies and politics possess, appears largely in his plays, providing postmodernism its duality. Pinter offers us a true picture of our postmodernist culture an apocalyptic world at the edge of civilization.
Author | : Graham Saunders |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2023-06-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1000890945 |
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Harold Pinter provides an up-to-date analysis and reappraisal concerning the work of one of the most studied and performed dramatists in the world. Drawing extensively from The Harold Pinter Archive at the British Library as well as reviews and other critical materials, this book offers new insights into previously established views about his work. The book also analyses and reappraises specific key historical and contemporary productions, including a selection of Pinter’s most significant screenplays. In particular, this volume seeks to assess Pinter’s critical reputation and legacy since his death in 2008. These include his position as a political writer and political activist – from disassociation and neutrality on the subject until relatively late in his career when his drama sought to explicitly address questions of political dissent and torture by totalitarian regimes. The book revisits some familiar territories such as Pinter’s place as a British absurdist and the role memory plays in his work, but it also sets out to explore new territories such as Pinter’s changing attitudes towards gender in the light of #MeToo and queer politics and how in particular a play such as The Caretaker (1960) through several key productions has brought the issues of race into sharper focus. Part of the Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatist series, Harold Pinter provides an essential and accessible guide to the dramatists’ work.
Author | : Jane Wong Yeang Chui |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 2013-05-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1137343079 |
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Using Martin Esslin's "invention" - the Theatre of the Absurd - to examine Pinter's works, Wong brings the complexities and intricacies of the plays to the forefront, provoking readers and audiences to reconsider and problematize more conventional studies of his plays.
Author | : Andrew Wyllie |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2017-09-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137315679 |
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This Reader's Guide synthesises the key criticism on Pinter's work over the last half century. Andrew Wyllie and Catherine Rees examine critical approaches and reactions to the major plays, charting the controversies which have arisen in response to Pinter's critiques of political and sexual issues. They consider criticism from the press and academics, on the themes of Absurdism, politics and gender identity. By placing this criticism in its historical context, this guide illustrates a transition from bewilderment and outrage to affection, fascination - and more outrage.