New World Order of Postmodernism in the Plays of Harold Pinter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New World Order of Postmodernism in the Plays of Harold Pinter write by Saumya Rajan. This book was released on 2018-07-06. New World Order of Postmodernism in the Plays of Harold Pinter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book reconnoiters the New World Order of Postmodernism in five plays The Room (1957), The Birthday Party (1957), The Caretaker (1960), The Homecoming (1965) and Celebration (2000) of Harold Pinter. With culturally structured, incomprehensibly manipulated, dual and fragmented characters, Harold Pinter analyses the ambiguities of political system. It is perhaps the System that forcibly drags Stanley to a world of systems in The Birthday Party. The situation of Ruth in The Homecoming clearly indicates the inevitable grip of this System. The last play Celebration overtly ridicules the very political system we approve of wherein the strategy consultants and the corporate people define the organized mechanism of this SYSTEM! The internalization of power which the power structures of societies and politics possess, appears largely in his plays, providing postmodernism its duality. Pinter offers us a true picture of our postmodernist culture an apocalyptic world at the edge of civilization.
Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama
Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama write by Mufti Mudasir. This book was released on 2014-06-26. Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book is a study of Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard, arguably the two most eminent British playwrights of the past sixty years or so, from a perspective of what it describes as a poetics of postmodern drama. Arguing for the application of Linda Hutcheon’s model of postmodernism to the study of drama, Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama shows that postmodern drama should be seen as a self-consciously contradictory and double-coded phenomenon, one which simultaneously inscribes and subverts the conventional categories of dramatic representation. In spite of its indebtedness to Beckett’s Absurdist and Brecht’s Epic theaters, postmodern drama should not be conflated with either. This is primarily because postmodern drama retains a critical edge towards contemporary reality in a manner which Hutcheon very aptly terms as a ‘complicitous critique’. The book demonstrates that both Pinter and Stoppard are pre-eminently postmodern in their treatment of issues such as the human subject, the notion of truth, historical verifiability and linguistic reference. Pinter’s preoccupation with non-referential modes of language-use, the role of power in the construction of the subject, and unreliable memories is as potent a way of disrupting the representational status of drama as Stoppard’s repeated recourse to devices such as parody, theater-within-theater and the fictional treatment of history.
Party Time ; And, The New World Order
Party Time ; And, The New World Order - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Party Time ; And, The New World Order write by Harold Pinter. This book was released on 1993. Party Time ; And, The New World Order available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Born in London in 1930, Harold Pinter holds an undisputed place in the front ranks of contemporary playwrights. These two plays, Party Time and The New World Order, work in chilling tandem, each demonstrating the inevitable brutality that comes with a total conviction of right. Party Time is a terrifying portrait of the culpable indifference of a privileged class, of the cruelty engendered in its members by political disruption, and of their merciless extinction of dissent. At an elegant cocktail party, a stylish bourgeoisie discusses country clubs and summer homes, while below in the streets a sinister military presence protects them from the unmentionable horrors of poverty, vulgarity, squalor. In The New World Order, two interrogators harass a man whom they condemn for his questioning of received ideas, and whom we know only as threat to their closed vision of democracy.
Postmodern/drama
Postmodern/drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postmodern/drama write by Stephen Watt. This book was released on 1998. Postmodern/drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scrutinizing the critical tendency to label texts or writers as "postmodern", scholar Stephen Watt argues that "reading post modernly" merely implies reading culture more broadly. In contemporary drama, Watt considers postmodernity less a question of genre or media than a mode of subjectivity shared by both playwright and audience. 6 illustrations.
The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter
The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter write by Peter Raby. This book was released on 2009-03-19. The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Updated edition of this popular Companion examining the wide range of Pinter's work, and his continuing impact and influence.
