Harold Pinter : towards a poetics of his plays
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Bibliographic Information
Harold Pinter : towards a poetics of his plays
（American university studies, series IV . English language and literature ; v. 44）
P. Lang, c1989
Available at 12 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [221]-253
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Pinter's dramatic figures are curiously perspectival creatures who exist on several levels at once, and who by virtue of the deliberate distortion that went into their creation show close affinities with Mannerism. Harold Pinter: Towards a Poetics of His Plays examines Pinter's stage plays from The Room to One for the Road, as well as several plays for radio and television, by focusing on their Mannerist traits; it presents its conclusions within the larger context of an inquiry into the principles and rules that can be said to inform Pinter's open drama.
Table of Contents
Contents: This is the first study of Pinter to take seriously the Mannerist dimension of the British dramatist's work. It focuses on competing coherences and shifting perspectives in order to lay the groundwork for a poetics of the plays.
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