Prentice The Pinter Ethic

The Erotic Aesthetic
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-1-135-57597-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 480 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Modern Drama

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Prentice, Penelope

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editor's Note Preface The Pinter Ethic: Overview Harold Pinter: Biography Part 1 The Early Work - Power as a Private Affair 1. Introduction: Pinter's Achievement 2. The Birthday party: choice, Action and Responsibility - The Pinter Ethic Defined 3. The Room and The Revue Sketches: The Ethic in the Early Work - Dominance and Destruction 4. The Slight Ache as Fulcrum: Leveling Dominant and Subservient Roles - The Triumph of Vitality and Truth 5. A Night Out: Vitality Vitiated 6. The Hothouse: Madness and Violence 7. The Caretaker:Dominance and Subservience Equated - The Human Connection 8. Night School: Possible Justice Without Love 9. The Dwarfs: Dominance as Betrayal 10. The Servant: Paradigmatic Powerplays 11. The Collection and The Lover: Identity Gained by Deliberate Pretense 12. The Pumpkin Eater: Married Love and Justice 13. The Homecoming: Dominance, Choice, and the Ethic Revised 14. The Quiller Memorandum: Torture Without Threat 15. Tea Party and The Basement: The Illusive Qualities of Power 16. Accident: Death, Desire and Birth Part 2 The Liminal Play of the Middle Period 16. Landscape, Silence and Night: Where Powerplays Vanish 17. The Go-Between: freedom Reborn 18. Old Times: Triple Dominance 19. Langrishe, Go Down, A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu: Proust Screenplay, and Monologue: Remembrances of Things Past 20. The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Last Tycoon:Love Gained and Lost 21. Brtrayal: The Past Regained Part 3 "This is the End My Friend, " THe Lovedeath Apocalyptic Vision Revised: Love, Justice and Power Reclaimed 22. Precisely and Family Voices: Loveeath 23. A Kind of Alska: Idenitty Unresolved 24. Victoria Station: Love and POwer Revisited 25. One for the Road: The End of the Road 26. MOuntain Language: Torture Revisited 27. Turtle Diary, Vicotry, 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 1980s and Early 1990s 28. Party Time and The New World Order: Love and justice Revisited 29. Moonlight: Lovedeath Wedded 30 Some Conclusions on Love, Justice and Power in the Pinter Ethic: The Public Consequences of Private Acts Selected Bibliography Index - Form and Innovation

Über Autor(innen)

Penelope Prentice is Professor of English at D'Youville College. She is an award-winning poet and playwright whose works include Thriller, Michael Tyro, and How to Seduce Your Husband.