Harold Pinter and the Twilight of Modernism.
Viewing his plays as a series of responses to fundamental aesthetic and political questions within modernism, Begley argues that, collectively, they narrate a prehistory of the postmodern.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2005.
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Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction
- A last modernist
- 'someone called Pinter'
- Resistance
- Negation, autonomy, commitment
- Politics
- Popular culture
- Immanent criticism
- Cultural studies
- Moonlight and modernity
- 1: The Politics of Negation
- Reading The Birthday Party
- The aesthetics of resistance: The Caretaker
- Anti-Oedipus: The Homecoming
- 2: The Modernist as Populist
- Reading The Dumb Waiter
- A Slight Ache and the question of radio
- Betrayal and mass culture
- 3: Towards the Postmodern
- The memory plays: Pinter among the radicals
- A poetics for thugs
- NOTES
- WORKS CITED
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Z.