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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Stoppard, Tom -- Criticism and interpretation
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SUBJECT |
Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008 fast |
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Stoppard, Tom fast |
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Pinter, Harold 1930-2008 gnd |
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Stoppard, Tom 1937- gnd |
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English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Theatre studies.
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Literary studies: plays & playwrights.
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English drama
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Drama
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Postmoderne
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781443862936 |
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1443862932 |
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1306907225 |
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9781306907224 |
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