Affirming the Absurd in Harold Pinter

Affirming the Absurd in Harold Pinter

Author: Jane Wong Yeang Chui

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-05-21

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1137343079

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Using Martin Esslin's "invention" - the Theatre of the Absurd - to examine Pinter's works, Wong brings the complexities and intricacies of the plays to the forefront, provoking readers and audiences to reconsider and problematize more conventional studies of his plays.


Affirming the Absurd in Harold Pinter

Affirming the Absurd in Harold Pinter

Author: Jane Wong Yeang Chui

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-05-21

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1137343079

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Using Martin Esslin's "invention" - the Theatre of the Absurd - to examine Pinter's works, Wong brings the complexities and intricacies of the plays to the forefront, provoking readers and audiences to reconsider and problematize more conventional studies of his plays.


The Plays of Harold Pinter

The Plays of Harold Pinter

Author: Andrew Wyllie

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-09-16

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1137315679

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This Reader's Guide synthesises the key criticism on Pinter's work over the last half century. Andrew Wyllie and Catherine Rees examine critical approaches and reactions to the major plays, charting the controversies which have arisen in response to Pinter's critiques of political and sexual issues. They consider criticism from the press and academics, on the themes of Absurdism, politics and gender identity. By placing this criticism in its historical context, this guide illustrates a transition from bewilderment and outrage to affection, fascination - and more outrage.


Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter

Author: Basil Chiasson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-01-28

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1350133655

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This important book offers a thematic collection of critical essays, ideal for undergraduate courses on modern British theatre, on Harold Pinter's theatrical works, alongside new interviews with contemporary theatre practitioners. The life and works of Harold Pinter (1930–2008), a pivotal figure in British theatre, have been widely discussed, debated and celebrated internationally. For over five decades, Pinter's work traversed and redefined various forms and genres, constantly in dialogue with, and often impacting the work of, other writers, artists and activists. Combining a reconsideration of key Pinter scholarship with new contexts, voices and theoretical approaches, this book opens up fresh insights into the author's work, politics, collaborations and his enduring status as one of the world's foremost dramatists. Three sections re-contextualize Pinter as a cultural figure; explore and interrogate his influence on contemporary British playwriting; and offer a series of original interviews with theatre-makers engaging in the staging of Pinter's work today. Reconsiderations of Pinter's relationship to literary and theatrical movements such as Modernism and the Theatre of the Absurd; interrogations of the role of class, elitism and religious and cultural identity sit alongside chapters on Pinter's personal politics, specifically in relation to the Middle East.


Screen Distribution and the New King Kongs of the Online World

Screen Distribution and the New King Kongs of the Online World

Author: Stuart Cunningham

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-07-19

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 113732645X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Drawing on comparisons with historical shake-ups in the film industry, Screen Distribution Post-Hollywood offers a timely account of the changes brought about in global online distribution of film and television by major new players such as Google/YouTube, Apple, Amazon, Yahoo!, Facebook, Netflix and Hulu.


Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance

Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance

Author: Timothy Jenkins

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-06-20

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1137357606

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

What happens when prophecies fail? Timothy Jenkins' re-reading of Leon Festinger's classic work on "cognitive dissonance" seeks to answer this question by studying a 50s doomsday group. This volume explores the relations between anthropology and psychology, and between social scientific and natural scientific accounts of human behavior.


Sound Poetics

Sound Poetics

Author: Seán Street

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-07-14

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 3319586769

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book examines sonic signals as something both heard internally and externally, through imagination, memory and direct response. In doing so it explores how the mind 'makes' sound through experience, as it interprets codes on the written page, and creates an internal leitmotif that then interacts with new sounds made through an aural partnership with the external world, chosen and involuntary exposure to music and sound messages, both friendly and antagonistic to the identity of the self. It creates an argument for sound as an underlying force that links us to the world we inhabit, an essential part of being in the same primal sense as the calls of birds and other inhabitants of a shared earth. Street argues that sound as a poetic force is part of who we are, linked to our visualisation and sense of the world, as idea and presence within us. This incredibly interdisciplinary book will be of great interest to scholars of radio, sound, media and literature as well as philosophy and psychology.


Identity, Citizenship, and Violence in Two Sudans: Reimagining a Common Future

Identity, Citizenship, and Violence in Two Sudans: Reimagining a Common Future

Author: A. Idris

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-08-20

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 113737179X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The 2011 split of Sudan and the conflicts that have followed make it a case of ongoing significance for understanding state-building in Africa. Examining both the north-south divide and the spread of violence from Darfur, this study shows how colonial legacies have shaped state formation and charts out a path to inclusive citizenship and democracy.