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This volume is the first to provide a book-length study of Pinter’s overtly political activity. With chapters on political drama, poetry, and speeches, it charts a consistent tension between aesthetics and politics through Pinter’s later career and defines the politics of the work in terms of a pronounced sensory dimension and capacity to affect audiences. The book brings to light unpublished letters and drafts from the Pinter Archive in the British Library and draws his political poems and speeches, which have previously been overshadowed by his plays, into the foreground. Intended for students, instructors, and researchers in drama and theatre, performance studies, literature, and media studies, this book celebrates Pinter’s later life and work by discerning a coherent political voice and project and by registering the complex ways that project troubles the divide between aesthetics and politics. ** From the Back Cover “This book will prove to be one of the most valuable contributions to Pinter scholarship since Harold Pinter’s death. Chiasson's consideration of the impact of his plays, poetry and polemic directly upon the body of audience members, as a function of their aestheti
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- Author
- Basil Chiasson (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK, Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781137508157
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, History, Sociology