Verbal Violence in Contemporary Drama - From Handke to Shepard

Klappentext This book considers a spectrum of post-war plays in which characters are created! coerced and destroyed by language. Zusammenfassung In this book! Jeanette Malkin considers a broad spectrum of post-war plays in which characters are created! coerced and destroyed by language. The playwrights examined include Handke! Pinter! Bond! Albee! Mamet! Shepard and Havel. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Language torture: on Peter Handke's Kaspar; 3. Gagged by language: verbal domination and subjugation; 4. Language as a prison: verbal debris and deprivation; 5. Wrestling with language: 'head to head'; 6. Conclusion; Notes; Index.

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• Authors: Malkin Jeanette R., Jeanette R. Malkin, Jeanette R. (Hebrew University of Jerusale Malkin, Malkin Jeanette R.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.04.1992
• EAN: 9780521383356
• ISBN: 978-0-521-38335-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europe, DRAMA / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays and playwrights