The Late Harold Pinter: Political Dramatist, Poet and Activist (1st ed. 2017)

Synopsis

This volume is the first to provide a book-length study of Pinter’s overtly political activity. With chapters on political drama, poetry, and speeches, it charts a consistent tension between aesthetics and politics through Pinter’s later career and defines the politics of the work in terms of a pronounced sensory dimension and capacity to affect audiences. The book brings to light unpublished letters and drafts from the Pinter Archive in the British Library and draws his political poems and speeches, which have previously been overshadowed by his plays, into the foreground. Intended for students, instructors, and researchers in drama and theatre, performance studies, literature, and media studies, this book celebrates Pinter’s later life and work by discerning a coherent political voice and project and by registering the complex ways that project troubles the divide between aesthetics and politics.

Copyright:

2017

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ISBN-13:

9781137508164

Related ISBNs:

9781137508157

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

Date of Addition:

04/09/21

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which pertain to Pinter’s personal letters and other unpublished materials. Philippa Lubbock has been most generous, not only permitting me to quote from a personal letter to Pinter but also committing graciously to email correspondence with me and informi

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Language:

English

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Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts

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