Towards a poetics of postmodern drama : a study of Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard /

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The book is a study of Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard, arguably the two most eminent British playwrights of the past sixty years or so, from a perspective of what it describes as a poetics of postmodern drama. Arguing for the application of Linda Hutcheon's model of postmodernism to the study o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mudasir, Mufti (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
Subjects:
Pinter, Harold, > 1930-2008 > Criticism and interpretation.
Stoppard, Tom > Criticism and interpretation.
Pinter, Harold, > 1930-2008
Stoppard, Tom
Pinter, Harold > 1930-2008
Stoppard, Tom > 1937-
1900-1999
English drama > 20th century > History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Théâtre anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Postmodernisme (Littérature)
Theatre studies.
Literature: history & criticism.
Literary studies: plays & playwrights.
DRAMA > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English drama
Drama
Postmoderne
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The book is a study of Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard, arguably the two most eminent British playwrights of the past sixty years or so, from a perspective of what it describes as a poetics of postmodern drama. Arguing for the application of Linda Hutcheon's model of postmodernism to the study of drama, Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama shows that postmodern drama should be seen as a self-consciously contradictory and double-coded phenomenon, one which simultaneously inscribes and subverts ...
Physical Description:1 online resource (125 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781443862936
1443862932
1306907225
9781306907224

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