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Author Mudasir, Mufti, author

Title Towards a poetics of postmodern drama : a study of Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard / by Mufti Mudasir
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (125 pages)
Contents Engaging with reality : a poetics of postmodern drama -- Harold Pinter and postmodernism : power, memory and politics -- Stoppard and postmodernism : parody, history and ethics
Summary 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 ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008 -- Criticism and interpretation
Stoppard, Tom -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008 fast
Stoppard, Tom fast
Pinter, Harold 1930-2008 gnd
Stoppard, Tom 1937- gnd
Subject English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Postmodernism (Literature)
Theatre studies.
Literature: history & criticism.
Literary studies: plays & playwrights.
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English drama
Postmodernism (Literature)
Drama
Postmoderne
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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