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Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter.

This collection of essays focuses on one of Harold Pinter's most popular and challenging plays, The Dumb Waiter, while addressing also a range of significant issues current in Pinter studies and which are applicable beyond this play. The interesting and provocative dialogues between established...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brewer, Mary F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2009.
Colección:Dialogue (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents; General Editor's Preface; Introduction: The Dumb Waiter
  • A different kind of theater; A Realist-Naturalist Pinter Revisited; The Dumb Waiter: Realism and Metaphor; (Re)Thinking Harold Pinter's Comedy of Menace; Feeding Power: Pinter, Bakhtin, and Inverted Carnival; Return of the Referent; "Disorder in a Darkened Room:" the Juridico-Political Space of The Dumb Waiter; High Art or Popular Culture: Traumatic conflicts of representation and postmodernism in Pinter's The Dumb Waiter; Pinter's The Dumb Waiter: Negotiating the boundary between "high" and "low" culture.
  • 'The Ironic Con Game' Revisited: Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, a Key to CourageThe "Other" Within Us: the Rubin's Vase of Class in The Dumb Waiter; Anti-Ritual, Critical Domestication and Representational Precision in Pinter's The Dumb Waiter; "Mixed feelings about words:" Language, politics and the ethics of inter-subjectivity in The Dumb Waiter; Unpacking the Pinteresque in The Dumb Waiter and Beyond; The First Last Look in the S.