Harold Pinter [[electronic resource] /] / William Baker

• Autore: Baker William <1944->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (173 p.)
• Disciplina: 822/.914; B
• Soggetto topico: Dramatists, English - 20th century; Poets, English - 20th century; Authors, English - 20th century; Screenwriters - Great Britain
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-153) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Growing Up; 2. Ireland, Precarious Existence and Marriage; 3. Early Plays; 4. Success; 5. Turning Points; 6. The 1970's and 1980's; 7. The 1990's and Beyond: Political Engagement; 8. Conclusion: Cancer, the Nobel Prize, Mutations of Mortality, Poetry; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Harold Pinter is one of the most important writers in English of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. This brief biography offers fresh insights into his life and work, concentrating on the themes, patterns, relationships, ideas and language common to his life and creative output. Placing Pinter's life and work alongside each other, the study illuminates Pinter's vision of society, politics, gender, sex, violence and human relationships. Drawing upon the full-range of his output, his letters, journalism, writings about him, Baker combines a biographical approach with...
• Titolo autorizzato: Harold Pinter
• ISBN: 1-282-87613-9; 9786612876134; 1-4411-7912-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785228603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Writers Lives