Harold Pinter
Subtitle: the theatre of power
By: Robert Gordon
Series: Michigan modern dramatists
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780472071241
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: "The latest volume in the Michigan Modern Dramatists series offers an authoritative but accessible look at Harold Pinter, one of the greatest and most influential postwar British playwrights and author of classic works such as The Birthday Party and The Homecoming. Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005 for his remarkable body of work and plays that 'uncover the precipice under everyday prattle and force entry into oppression's closed rooms.'"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: understanding Pinter's drama; title: The room; title: Questions of authority: the dumb waiter; title: Questions of identity: the caretaker, 1960; title: Family voices: the homecoming; title: New conceptions of gender and memory; title: No man's land; title: Betrayal: "the art of taking away"; title: States of catatonia; title: The new world order: a postmodern aesthetics of power; title: A postmodern aesthetics of power celebration?.