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Prentice Penelope |
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The Pinter ethic : the erotic aesthetic / / Penelope Prentice |
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New York, : Garland, 2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-57597-5 |
1-135-57598-3 |
0-203-90528-8 |
1-280-40748-4 |
0-203-90652-7 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (569 p.) |
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Collana |
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Garland reference library of the humanities ; ; v. 2237. Studies in modern drama ; ; v. 3 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Didactic drama, English - History and criticism |
Ethics in literature |
Love in literature |
Sex in literature |
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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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Originally published: 1994. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-439) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; General Editor's Note; Preface; The Pinter Ethic: Overview; Harold Pinter: Biography; Introduction to the Second Edition: ~Fought Against Savage and Pitiless Odds~; Introduction: Pinter's Achievement; Form and Innovation; The Dumb Waiter: Toward A Definitionof the Pinter Ethic; Paradigmatic Dramatization of Conflict; The Birthday Party: Choice, Action and Responsibility; The Pinter Ethic Defined; The Room and The Revue Sketches: The Ethic in the Early Work; Dominance and Destruction; A Slight Ache as Fulcrum: Leveling Dominant and Subservient Roles |
The Triumph of Vitality And TruthA Night Out: Vitality Vitiated; The Hothouse: Madness and Violence; The Caretaker: Dominance and Subservience Equated; The Human Connection; Night School: Possible Justice Without Love; The Dwarfs: Dominance as Betrayal; The Servant: Paradigmatic Powerplays; The Collection and The Lover: Identity Gained by Deliberate Pretense; The Pumpkin Eater: Married Love and Justice; The Homecoming: Dominance, Choice and the Ethic Revised; The |
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Quiller Memorandum: Torture without Threat; Tea Party And The Basement: The Illusive Qualities of Power |
Accident: Death, Desire, and BirthLandscape, Silence And Night: Where Powerplays Vanish; The Go-Between: Freedom Reborn; Old Times: Triple Dominance; Langrishe, Go Down, La Recherche Du Temps Perdu: The Proust Screenplay, and Monologue: Remembrances of Things Past; No Man's Land: Past Dominance Regained; The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Last Tycoon: Love Gained and Lost; Betrayal: The Past Regained; Precisely And Family Voices: Lovedeath; A Kind of Alaska: Identity Unresolved; Victoria Station: Love And Power Revisited; One For The Road: The End of the Road |
Mountain Language: Torture RevisitedTurtle Diary, Victory, The Handmaid's Tale, Reunion, The Heat of the Day, The Comfort of Strangers, The Remains of the Day, and The Trial: The Screenplays of the 1980's and Early 1990's; The Comfort Of Strangers: Love and Justice; Party Time and The New World Order: Love and Justice Revisited; Moonlight: Lovedeath Wedded; Ashes to Ashes, The Dreaming Child, and Celebration: Desire, Destruction, Responsibility and the Complicity of Women; Some Conclusions on Love, Justice and Power in the Pinter Ethic: The Public Consequence of Private Acts |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The only comprehensive guide to the plays of one of the world's greatest yet most puzzling contemporary dramatists. |
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