Harold Pinter Towards a Poetics of His Plays

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.

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"...der theoretische Ansatz ist ohne Zweifel eine willkommene Korrektur allzu synthesebeflissener Studien, und die Kommentare zu den einzelnen Dramen wird man in jedem Fall mit Gewinn - im Detail auch mit Genuß - lesen." (Rudolf Beck, Archiv)

Product details

• Authors: Volker Strunk
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.08.2016
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet
• EAN: 9780820403892
• ISBN: 978-0-8204-0389-2
• Pages: 260
• Weight (packing): 440 g
• Series: American University Studies; American University Studies Series 4: English Language and Literature > 44; American University Studies > 44; American University Studies Series 4: English Language and Literature