Susan Hollis Merritt

Pinter in Play

Critical Strategies and the Plays of Harold Pinter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"An original and important book relevant to current general interests in literary theory and the problems of interpretation as well as to Pinter scholarship and criticism. Merritt has produced a work of 'metacriticism' that I would expect to remain of permanent value. Her knowledge of Pinter scripts, performances of them, and of Pinter critics and reviewers is vast, and parallel to her demonstrations of changes in critical strategies and perspectives, she evokes a sense of the changes Pinter has gone through as a playwright."--Michael Steig, Simon Fraser University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Enlarged, with a New Preface by the Author edition
• Seitenzahl: 367
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 153mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780822316749
• ISBN-10: 0822316749
• Artikelnr.: 21005120

Autorenporträt

Susan Hollis Merritt

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Paperback Edition  xi
Preface  xvii
Introduction  xxi
Abbreviations  xxix
Perspectives on Pinter's Critical Evolution
1. "Progress" and "Fashion" in Pinter Studies  3
2. Aims, Kinds, and Contexts of Criticism  25
3. Criticism as Strategy  49
4. Pinter's "Semantic Uncertainty" and Critically "Inescapable"
Certainties  66
Some Strategies of Pinter Critics: Themes, Rituals, Games, Fantasies,
Dreams
5. Thematic Tactics and Ritural Ruses: Searches for Meaning  89
6. Psychoanalytic Maneuvers: Smoke Screens against Recognition  108
7. Some Other Language Games: Linguistic Parlays and Parleys  137
8. Cultural Politics  171
Social Relations of Critical and Cultural Change
9. Contingencies of Value Judgments of Pinter's Plays  213
10. The Case of Pinter: Toward Theory as Practice in Critical and Cultural
Change  245
Notes  277
Works Cited  299
Index  329