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Titolo |
The art of crime : the plays and films of Harold Pinter and David Mamet / / edited by Leslie Kane |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-88355-6 |
1-135-88356-4 |
1-280-17737-3 |
0-203-64206-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (174 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Criminals in literature |
Crime in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 A Poetics for Thugs; 2 "You'll Never Be without a Police Siren": Pinter and the Subject of Law; 3 Harold Pinter's "Before the Law"; 4 Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes: The Criminality of Indifference and the Failure of Empathy; 5 Comedy and Crime: Pinter's Primal Power; 6 Lost in the Funhouse: Spectacle and Crime in Pinter's Screenplay of Kafka's The Trial; 7 Lie Detectors: Pinter/Mamet and the Victorian Concept of Crime; 8 Gradations of Criminality in the Plays of David Mamet |
9 Melville's The Confidence Man and His Descendants in David Mamet's Work10 Fantasy Crimes/Fictional Lives: Lakeboat; 11 David Mamet's House of Games and the Allegory of Performance; 12 More Uses of the Knife as Signifier in The Cryptogram, The Old Religion, and The Edge; 13 A Theater of the Self: Mamet's The Edge as a Figura of Otherness; 14 Suckered Again: The Perfect Patsy and The Spanish Prisoner; Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This collection of 15 original essays, assembled by renowned Mamet and Pinter scholar Leslie Kane, examines the pervasiveness of crime |
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