The Pinter ethic : the erotic aesthetic / Penelope Prentice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prentice, Penelope.

Series:

Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 2237.

Garland reference library of the humanities. Studies in modern drama ; v. 3.

Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 2237. Studies in modern drama ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008--Ethics.

Pinter, Harold.

Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008--Aesthetics.

Didactic drama, English--History and criticism.

Didactic drama, English.

Ethics in literature.

Love in literature.

Sex in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (569 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Garland, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The only comprehensive guide to the plays of one of the world's greatest yet most puzzling contemporary dramatists.

Contents:

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 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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Notes:

Originally published: 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-439) and indexes.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-135-57597-5

1-135-57598-3

0-203-90528-8

1-280-40748-4

0-203-90652-7

9780203905289

OCLC:

52127148