Viewing his plays as a series of responses to fundamental aesthetic and political questions within modernism, Begley argues that, collectively, they narrate a prehistory of the postmodern.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 822/.912
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0802038875 9781442675629
- LCCN
- PR6066.I53
- LCCN Item number
- Z54 2005eb
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (vi, 207 p.)
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- Canada
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00600432 (OCoLC)244766399 (CaOOCEL)418737
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 6
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 8
- Introduction 12
- A last modernist 12
- 'someone called Pinter' 15
- Resistance 19
- Negation, autonomy, commitment 22
- Politics 27
- Popular culture 30
- Immanent criticism 34
- Cultural studies 37
- Moonlight and modernity 40
- 1: The Politics of Negation 46
- Reading The Birthday Party 49
- The aesthetics of resistance: The Caretaker 57
- Anti-Oedipus: The Homecoming 72
- 2: The Modernist as Populist 85
- Reading The Dumb Waiter 88
- A Slight Ache and the question of radio 106
- Betrayal and mass culture 122
- 3: Towards the Postmodern 142
- The memory plays: Pinter among the radicals 144
- A poetics for thugs 170
- NOTES 196
- WORKS CITED 204
- INDEX 212
- A 212
- B 212
- C 213
- D 213
- E 213
- F 213
- G 213
- H 213
- I 214
- J 214
- K 214
- L 214
- M 214
- N 214
- O 214
- P 215
- Q 215
- R 215
- S 215
- T 216
- V 216
- W 216
- Z 216
