UID:
almahu_9947414529302882
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 245 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511597800 (ebook)
Content:
In this book, Jeanette Malkin considers a broad spectrum of post-war plays in which characters are created, coerced and destroyed by language. The playwrights examined include Handke, Pinter, Bond, Albee, Mamet and Shepard, as well as Vaclav Havel and two of his plays: The Garden Party and The Memorandum. These playwrights portray language's power within our political, social and interpersonal worlds. The violence that language does, the 'tyranny of words', grabs centre stage in their plays. Characters are manipulated and defined through language, their actions and identity limited by verbal options, in order to reveal the links between language and power. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of drama, theatre history, American and European literature, and comparative literature.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction --
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Language torture: on Peter Handke's Kaspar --
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Gagged by language: verbal domination and subjugation.
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Eugene Ionesco: Lesson.
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Harold Pinter: Birthday Party and The Dwarfs.
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Vaclav Havel: Garden Party and The Memorandum.
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Politics of language domination --
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Language as a prison: verbal debris and deprivation.
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Franz Xaver Kroetz: "No harm in talking"
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Edward Bond: Saved and The Pope's Wedding.
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David Mamet: American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross --
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Wrestling with language: "head to head"
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Edward Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Expanding the context: Strindberg and Jarry.
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Sam Shepard: Tooth of Crime --
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Conclusion.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521383356
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511597800
URL:
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