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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Begley, Varun
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Edición:2nd ed.
Temas:
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.