Gordon Pinter at 70

A Casebook
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-135-34739-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 406 Seiten

Reihe: Casebooks on Modern Dramatists

This comprehensive and authoritative casebook includes cornerstone essays on Pinter's creative process, his politics, film adaptations, and acting career. It also includes a collection of photos found nowhere else that document Pinter's "golden time"--his early acting days in Ireland--, a substantial introduction, a chronology, and bibliography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gordon, Lois

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editor's Note, Kimball King

Introduction, Lois Gordon

Introduction to the Second Edition, Lois Gordon

Chronology

Chapter 1: Creative Process and Meaning-Some Remarks of Pinter's "Letter to Peter Wood, Martin Esslin

Chapter 2: The Economy of Betrayal, Ruby Cohn

Chapter 3: Time for Change in No Man's Land, Austin E. Quigley

Chapter 4: Last to Go: A Structuralist Reading, David Lodge

Chapter 5: Monologue: The Play of Words, Linda Ben-Zvi

Chapter 6: The Dumb Waiter, The Collection, The Lover, and The Homecoming: A Revisionist Approach, George Wellwarth

Chapter 7: Displacement in Time and Space: Harold Pinter's Other Places, Katherine Burkman

Chapter 8: Film and Drama: The Opening Sequence of the Filmed Version of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker (The Guest), Steven H. Gale

Chapter 9: Pinter and Politics, Susan Hollis Merritt

Chapter 10: "Yes! In the Sea of Life Enisled": Harold Pinter's Other Places, Ewald Mengel

Chapter 11: "To Lay it Bare": Pinter, Shakespeare, and The Dwarfs, Francis Gillen

Chapter 12: Mind-less Men: Pinter's Dumb Waiters, Robert Gordon

Chapter 13: Harold Pinter in New York, Lois Gordon

Chapter 14: Photos, from Pauline Flanagan

Chapter 15: Harold Pinter's Achievement and Modern Drama, Kimball King and Marti Greene

Chapter 16: Acting Pinter, Mel Gussow

Chapter 17: "You're speaking to someone and you suddenly become another person": Storytelling in Pinter's Moonlight and Ashes to Ashes, Ann C. Hall

Chapter 18: Celebrating Pinter, Michael Billington

Selected Bibliography

Author Biographies

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lois Gordon, professor of English at Farleigh Dickinson University, wrote the first book in the United States on Harold Pinter. She has published numerous other books on other writers and on American culture, including The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946 and American Chronicle: Decade by Decade Through the Twentieth Century.