Harold Pinter's Politics: A Silence Beyond EchoFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2005 - 259 עמודים Harold Pinter's Politics examines the expression of Pinter's political beliefs across every aspect and era of his artistic career. The fierce political stances of this important dramatist have been embodied in plays, screenplays, and his career as a theatrical director. Traditionally associated with absurdism, minimalism, and the dramatization of uncertainty, Pinter's name is now a byword for anti-authoritarian and anti-American politics. This transition has been in evidence from the earliest phases of his writing; all of Pinter's work emerges from his political views. His uniqueness as a political artist is that he is pessimistic about changing his audience or making it see its complicity in the horrors of the modern world. These horrors are dramatized through images of torture and oppression culminating in moments of silence that index the full extent of the destruction unleashed by the forces of power against dissidence. |
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Early Plays and Retroactive Readings The Birthday Party The Dumb Waiter and The Hothouse | 36 |
Pinter against the New Right Precisely One for the Road and Mountain Language | 72 |
Pinter and the Permanence of Power Party Time Celebration Press Conference and The New World Order | 101 |
Pinter at the Movies The Comfort of Strangers and Victory | 144 |
Pinter and the Politics of Fascism Reunion Taking Sides and The Trojan War Will Not Take Place | 164 |
Ashes to Ashes Morality and Politics after the Holocaust | 195 |
Notes | 221 |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 16 - If I were to state any moral precept it might be : Beware of the writer who puts forward his concern for you to embrace, who leaves you in no doubt of his worthiness, his usefulness, his altruism, who declares that his heart is in the right place, and ensures that it can be seen in full view, a pulsating mass where his characters ought to be.
הפניות לספר זה
Integral Drama: Culture, Consciousness and Identity <span dir=ltr>William S. Haney</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2008 |