Harold Pinter and the twilight of modernism /
"Examining plays from 1958 to 1996, Varun Begley's Harold 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...
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
©2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. A last modernist ; 'someone called Pinter' ; Resistance ; Negation, autonomy, commitment ; Politics ; Popular culture ; Immanent criticism ; Cultural studies ; Moonlight and modernity.
- The politics of negation. Reading The birthday party ; The aesthetics of resistance: The caretaker ; Anti-Oedipus: The homecoming.
- The modernist as populist. Reading The dumb waiter ; A slight ache and the question of radio ; Betrayal and mass culture.
- Towards the postmodern. The memory plays: Pinter among the radicals ; A poetics for thugs.
