LEADER 03480nam 2200721 450 001 9910456207903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-7562-4 010 $a9786612028984 010 $a1-282-02898-7 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442675629 035 $a(CKB)2430000000001150 035 $a(OCoLC)244766399 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10195559 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000298375 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11233524 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000298375 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10344521 035 $a(PQKB)11332132 035 $a(CaPaEBR)418737 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600432 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3250447 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671580 035 $a(DE-B1597)464521 035 $a(OCoLC)1002232642 035 $a(OCoLC)1004880016 035 $a(OCoLC)1011446949 035 $a(OCoLC)944177803 035 $a(OCoLC)999360039 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442675629 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671580 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257285 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL202898 035 $a(OCoLC)958581136 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000001150 100 $a20160921h20052005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHarold Pinter and the twilight of modernism /$fVarun Begley 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2005. 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (216 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-9492-9 311 $a0-8020-3887-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. The Politics of Negation -- $t2. The Modernist as Populist -- $t3. Towards the Postmodern -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aThe Frankfurt School's discourse on modernism has seldom been linked to contemporary drama, though the questions of aesthetics and politics explored by T.W. Adorno and others seem especially germane to the plays of Harold Pinter, which span high and low cultural forms and move freely from hermetic modernism to political engagement. Examining plays from 1958 to 1996, Varun Begley'sHarold Pinter and the Twilight of Modernism argues that Pinter's work simultaneously embodies the modernist principle of negation and the more fluid aesthetics of the postmodern.Pinter is arguably one of the most popular and perplexing of modern dramatists writing in English. His plays prefigured, then chronicled, the crumbling divide between modernism and its historical 'others:' popular entertainment, politically committed art, and technological mass culture. Begley sheds new light on Pinter's work by applying the methods and problems of cultural studies discourse. Viewing his plays as a series of responses to fundamental aesthetic and political questions within modernism, Begley argues that, collectively, they narrate a prehistory of the postmodern. 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / General. 676 $a822/.912 700 $aBegley$b Varun$0292841 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456207903321 996 $aHarold Pinter and the twilight of modernism$9744173 997 $aUNINA